San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is barred from receiving Holy Communion due to her pro-abortion stance -- marking an escalation in a ...

The Last Supper, depicted in the stained-glass windows of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, in Rome Credit: iStock/PaoloGaetano One Holy Saturday sometime in the 10th century, a married ...

A long list of legislators will not be able to receive Holy Communion at one Rhode Island parish after a priest announced that their support for abortion legislation disqualified them. WJAR reported ...

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg is taking issue with San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone for barring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) from receiving communion in her home diocese. On ...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday she will be joining the bipartisan Congressional Delegation to attend Pope Francis’ funeral in the Vatican on Saturday. Despite claiming to be ...

For Catholics: As Catholics, we fully participate in the celebration of the Eucharist when we receive Holy Communion. In order to be properly disposed to receive communion, participants should not be ...

How we handle objects says a lot about how we regard them. When looking at fine jewelry, for example, we are mindful to handle the gems carefully. When observing fine works of art, we don’t even touch ...

Most Rev. Douglas Deshotel, bishop of Lafayette, clarified Tuesday morning how Catholics may receive the sacrament of Holy Communion. Meeting with a diocesan task force on the coronavirus, the bishop ...

It is unclear whether reception of the Eucharist in the hand has been formally permitted in Uganda, or has existed as a custom. A priest offers communion to a parishioner during Mass in an African ...

Next week the Church will celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. It is a time for us, as St. Thomas Aquinas wrote in 1263 for the first celebration of the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus, to ...

In response to Raymond Mariano’s column of July 18, Catholics who do not follow the church’s laws and reject church teachings should not come forward to receive Holy Communion because they are not in ...