VATICAN CITY — As more Catholics around the world find themselves unable to receive the Eucharist due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis provided an example of a spiritual communion prayer that ...

Second- and third-grade students at St. Jude School completed a joint First Communion project. Communion prayer boxes were decorated with religious symbols by second-grade students to keep rosaries or ...

Paula Magliocco of Pewaukee, Wis., is a busy mother of three and a Catholic elementary-school teacher. Yet, in spite of her hectic life, she finds time to make a spiritual communion, not just once, ...

Preparation for Holy Communion occupies a special place in the spiritual life of an Orthodox Christian. Since ancient times, participation in the Eucharist has been perceived not only as the greatest ...

New Orleans – Appealing to God for relief from the coronavirus, Archbishop Gregory Aymond has announced a parish-wide “Day of Prayer and Fasting” on March 27. He has also offered local Catholics a ...

Celebrating his first Mass in Rome's diocesan cathedral, Pope Leo XIV said communion is built primarily "on our knees," through prayer and a constant commitment to conversion. He reaffirmed Pope ...

The four "neighborhoods" of diocesan priests. "Being close to God in prayer", "being close to the bishop, always close to the bishop: without the bishop the Church does not move forward, without the ...

The Holy Family of Mary, Jesus and Joseph is an important model for Christians, but Joseph has always been more in the background -- the man of fortitude and humility who was not Jesus' biological ...

After my mother died five years ago, I learned that she had been born to young Russian Jewish parents living on Orchard Street on the lower East Side of Manhattan. She had never spoken of this ...

Pope Francis delivers his blessing during his general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican April 7, 2021. The pope said Christians are never alone in prayer but instead are ...