With First Holy Communion season now at an end, debate has turned to whether the tradition will stay mainstream for much ...

Sir – It was a disappointment to read Karina Shanley’s letter “Allergic to First Communions” (May 19th). It is not the Catholic Church, as you state, that “continues to allow this annual charade to ...

‘Since Christ is whole and entire in each of the Eucharistic species,’ says the Catechism, ‘anyone who has received either of the consecrated species has received Christ whole and entire.’ Pascal ...

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago is advocating for Catholic faithful to receive holy Communion standing — the normative posture established by the U.S. Catholic bishops — as part of a renewed ...

A recent missive from Cardinal Blase Cupich to parishioners in the Archdiocese of Chicago provoked an unusually vitriolic response this week after the cardinal addressed issues regarding proper ...

We interrupt this Communion Rite . . . These may not be the introductory words used, but they might well be. At some point, the principal celebrant intervenes with something like this: ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago, in a letter published this week in the archdiocesan newspaper, urged Catholics to stand while receiving Holy Communion and not make gestures that ...