Let us first take a look back at some church history. In the centuries before this couple’s plea, Catholics had been receiving Communion less and less often.

Receiving Communion on the hand, Father Balvodin points out, is a return to a liturgical form practiced for 10 centuries by the church, dating back to its earliest days.

On Aug. 26, the Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Nativity B. V. M. Church will host a Jubilee of Eastern Churches celebration. The 6 p.m. Jubilee service will be held at the church, located at ...

COMMENTARY: Approved on the same day as ‘Lumen Gentium’ and ‘Unitatis Redintegratio,’ ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ manifests the Church’s veneration for the Eastern Catholic Churches ...

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 that ...