(The Conversation) — Amid controversy over US bishops’ plans to deny Communion to pro-abortion rights Catholics, a scholar of sacramental theology explains the importance of the ritual to members of ...

It was early Wednesday evening at the adoration chapel at St. Clare’s Convent, home to the Sisters of Life in northeast Washington, D.C. Light streamed through the blue and yellow glass windows, ...

Holy Thursday, according to Christianity.com, is when Jesus celebrated his final Passover and with his disciples. Also known as the Last Supper, it’s where Jesus established the practice of Eucharist ...

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago is advocating for Catholic faithful to receive holy Communion standing — the normative posture established by the U.S. Catholic bishops — as part of a renewed ...

Scrawled on barrio walls, displayed on church banners, spray-painted on buses, you can still read his promise: "If they kill me, I will rise again in the struggle of the Salvadoran people." These are ...

COMMENTARY: In the run-up to Easter, we ought to live Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday with a particularly Eucharistic focus. Clockwise from left: Holy Thursday: The Last Supper is ...

With pomp and ceremony on January 6, the Episcopal (Anglican) Church in the United States and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) formally inaugurated full communion between the two ...

Easter will this year be observed on Sunday, April 17—a date determined by the Full Moon, making the event what is known as a "movable feast." Following Palm Sunday's arrival and the beginning of Holy ...

COMMENTARY: A century after the modern ecumenical movement began, recent events within the Anglican Communion in the Orthodox ...