Reception of holy Communion on the tongue has been a tradition of the Church for more than 15 centuries. It began, largely, as an effort to affirm that the Eucharist was not a symbol or a ritual ...

More than 2,000 people gathered inside the Notre Dame Cathedral for the first time in Paris since a 2019 fire to take part in a Sunday Mass led by the archbishop.

Especially this Christmas, let us pray for our brothers and sisters who celebrate the Incarnation not in the warmth of a ...

PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral, its air thick with the smell of incense, hosted its first Mass on Sunday since the ...

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Donald Trump's second term as U.S. President will surely raise significant questions about the ethics of migration policies. How might we resist extremism and polarization while retaining a commitment ...

"Christians are baptized 'in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit' [Mt ... The Western tradition expresses first the consubstantial communion between Father and Son ...

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

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 ...

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

Mozambique celebrates Family Day today (Christmas for Christians) in an unusual manner due to post-election violent protests that are preventing families and churches from gathering for their usual ...