What's the history behind communion in the Catholic Church? Yeah, I know the story about the last supper and all, but usually what's really behind rituals like this is an attempt to subvert some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The biannual U.S. Catholic bishops’ meeting received more than its usual attention this June due to one particular item on its ...

One of the great joys of the Lenten season is getting to teach first communion classes to our sixth-grade students, an age in which they are almost no longer Sunday school students, but yet a little ...

I heard an argument recently about nonbelievers receiving holy communion in church. In Catholicism, it is explicitly warned against giving communion to non-Catholics. In other types of Christian ...

Faiths World Communion Sunday is about more than Christian unity (RNS) — World Communion Sunday should be understood as a ritual that helps us envision ourselves beyond our own religious, racial, ...

Two Peruvian priests and the president of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference responded to “visionary” Erica Serrano, who encouraged people to use a consecrated host to perform purification rituals and ...

FARGO – The Unitarian Universalist Church of Fargo-Moorhead, 121 9th St. S., invites the community to attend a special Flower Communion worship service at 11 a.m. Sunday. Warren Christensen will ...

garden Sunday as congregants celebrate the Flower Communion. The event takes place during the 11 a.m. service and it is followed by a picnic and entertainment from 12-3 p.m. on the church grounds at ...

(The Conversation) — Amid controversy over US bishops’ plans to deny Communion to pro-abortion rights Catholics, a scholar of sacramental theology explains the importance of the ritual to members of ...