Holy Thursday strides two liturgical seasons: Lent and the Paschal Triduum. The Paschal Triduum, the “Great Three Days,” begins (and Lent ends) with the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy ...

SCRIPTURES & ART: Peter Paul Rubens’ “Last Supper” painting imparts key lessons for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi Peter Paul Rubens, “The Last Supper,” ca. 1632 (photo: Public Domain) John ...

The Catholic bishops of the United States voted Tuesday to approve a document aimed at increasing the reverence of all Catholics for Holy Communion. The document, written in a question and answer ...

A concerted national effort to rekindle Catholics’ passion for the Holy Eucharist will get an areawide boost next month with a diocesan-planned evening at the Cajundome Convention Center that will ...

The 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea is an appropriate time for the U.S. church to reconsider its deviation from ...

If you hear about a place where the purest and most precious gem is given free of charge, and you can come daily and get as many gems as you want, will you come, as fast as you can, every day? In the ...

Priests have a duty to remind Catholics not to receive the Eucharist in a state of serious sin and to make confession easily available, a Nigerian cardinal said at the International Eucharistic ...

Jesus gave the apostles the ability to forgive sins, as well as to teach and celebrate the Eucharist, and they passed it on ...

A priest elevates the host during a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City in 2020. (Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS.) Listen NEWARK, New Jersey — Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin has invited the ...

The Eucharist, or Holy Communion, is at the very heart of Christianity. Believers have gathered over centuries to participate ...

The sacrament of the Eucharist, sometimes referred to as Holy Communion, is steeped in tradition. One such tradition concerns the bread used during the administration of the sacrament. The bread used ...

President Joe Biden speaks about the mass shooting in Colorado from the White House in Washington March 23, 2021. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters) The parish council at Holy Trinity Catholic Church ...