A recent missive from Cardinal Blase Cupich to parishioners in Chicago provoked an unusually vitriolic response after the ...

The First Eucharistic ... and makes Himself present for Holy Communion with us is the Lord Jesus Himself. The priest we can see is acting, during the Sacred Liturgy, in persona Christi.

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago is advocating for Catholic faithful to receive holy Communion standing -- the normative ...

No one should engage in a gesture that calls attention to oneself or disrupts the flow of the procession,” Cardinal Blase ...

The First Communion is a milestone event in the Catholic Church. In Scotland, around 8000 children take their First Holy Communion every year. The ceremony marks a significant moment for boys and ...

is a Catholic belief that the bread and the wine become the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ. Children prepare for their First Holy Communion in school but the sacrament takes place in church and ...

The pope inaugurated the Catholic Church's historic 2025 Jubilee of "Hope" on Christmas Eve at the Vatican in traditional ceremonies before he addressed thousands of Catholic faithful.

urged Catholics to stand while receiving Holy Communion and not make gestures that draw attention to oneself. In the letter, published in Chicago Catholic, Cardinal Cupich said “the norm ...