Most people know the snippet of Flannery O’Connor’s defense of the Holy Eucharist, wherein she sat at a dinner party and said, “Well, if it’s a symbol, to hell with it.” The quote goes on further from ...

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 ...

Deacon David Bartolowits, left, and Father Rick Nagel elevate the Eucharist during a Feb. 7, 2019, Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. (Credit: CNS photo/Sean Gallagher, The ...

The English author and convert to Catholicism Graham Greene once penned a short story entitled “The Hint of an Explanation,” which is well worth the read, not least of all for Graham’s prose and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If we are honest with ourselves, all Catholics should approach the Eucharist in fear and trembling. It is like the words "Thy will be done" in the Lord's Prayer: We say them sometimes without thinking ...

Les Arts Florissants performed a concert in dialogue with an exhibition devoted to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher; ...

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 ...

A delegation of clergy, religious sisters and laity, together with a Chicago auxiliary bishop, were barred for the second ...