The next several columns will be reports from parishes about what's happening during the distribution of Holy Communion.

If Holy Communion under both kinds is the commendable practice, the Precious Blood is already in separate chalices prepared ...

Holy Communion, also known as the Lord’s Supper, is taken in remembrance of what our Savior our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us on the cross. The bread represents Jesus’ body that was scourged and ...

Bishop Michael Martin has established guidelines for the reception of holy Communion in the Diocese of Charlotte to strengthen unity in worship, uphold the church's liturgical norms and encourage ...

An eight-year-old girl waiting for a life-saving heart transplant has celebrated her first holy communion in hospital with a ...

A GIRL sent home to die when she was just four days old has defied the odds to receive her first Holy Communion. Willow ...

(RNS) — After Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte issued a pastoral letter outlining that Catholics are expected to stand during the reception of Holy Communion in the diocese — and ...

In honor of Jesus, we're bumping up this oldie-but-goodie from 2010…enjoy! It's the time of the year when people examine their eating habits. Every morsel that goes into one's mouth is scrutinized for ...

It sometimes takes a mystic to pierce through the familiar aspects of our Catholic faith and help us appreciate them anew. That’s what St. John Paul II did for me and my Eucharistic devotion. I had ...

Every Sunday at St. Anne Church in Richmond Hill, Georgia, the Hilleary family — mother Michelle, father Brian and five children — receives Communion at the altar rail. “It creates a more sacred space ...