Pope Leo XIV presents the pallium to Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of Washington during Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the ...

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Late Sunday morning, people gathered outside of St. Augustine Catholic Church for a processional they hoped would bring Jesus ...

Q. When on vacation recently we went to a church that still had and used a Communion rail. Are Communion ...Read More ...

The worthy reception of holy Communion is the fullest way to fulfill the divine call to consciously and actively participate in the Mass. It’s certainly not the only way. We are still obligated to ...

U.S. Catholics’ religious observance varies widely. Find out how often they take Communion, pray the rosary and attend a ...

“There’s some people who believe that [kneeling] is what it means to be reverent when receiving Holy Communion, but what they don’t realize is that they really do interrupt the flow,” he ...

Do you kneel when you receive Communion at Mass? I don’t really care, except for the fact the question has become the latest battle in a decades-old culture war in the Catholic Church.

Fr. John P. Beal, a professor of canon law at the Catholic University of America, said that a person banned from receiving Communion can ask for a review or a kind of appeal under canon law ...

How we partake in the mystery of Christ—kneeling, receiving the host in our hands, or on our tongue—is secondary to the experience of humility and honor in receiving the Eucharist.

In an April 2013 Free Press article, Vigneron said Catholics who back same-sex marriage and receive Communion would “logically bring shame for a double-dealing that is not unlike perjury.” ...