The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, gave the sermon for the 19th meeting of the ...

That path took Vance from a youthful evangelical Protestantism to an almost complete loss of religious faith and practice in early adulthood and then across the River Tiber to the Catholic Church. As ...

Vance’s new memoir, Communion, owes its form to Confessions, though not its substance. For 304 pages, Vance travels away from ...

JD Vance’s intellectual evolution continues apace. In “Hillbilly Elegy” (2016) he lamented the social pathologies he witnessed as a child in small-town Kentucky and Ohio—drug addiction, domestic ...

A man who meant to be a priest is faced with a moral crossroads in this ambitious and affecting first novel Jon Doyle’s debut novel tells the story of Mack O’Brien, a young man who went to a seminary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Communion is an important ordinance practiced by many Christians (it's one of the seven sacraments for Catholics). After all, it's ...

The edict from Charlotte’s Catholic bishop came just before Christmas with a benign title: “Pastoral letter on norms for Holy Communion.” Bishop Michael Martin decreed parishioners could no longer use ...

Holy Scriptures are read, prayers are offered, and bread and wine are consecrated and received as the body and blood of Jesus Christ. The service will last approximately 40 minutes.

The worthy reception of holy Communion is the fullest way to fulfill the divine call to consciously and actively participate in the Mass. It’s certainly not the only way. We are still obligated to ...

This weekend’s readings invite us to reflect on the theme of peace — not simply the absence of conflict, but a deeper peace that is rooted in connection. True peace is not passive or empty silence. It ...

Q: Many Christian readers, fresh off their Easter Communion services, wrote to me to ask me about the actual Christian belief about the bread and wine turning into the body and blood of Christ.