Receiving Communion in your hands “Receiving the Eucharist in the hand was the common practice of the church both in the East and West for the first 800 years of Christianity,” said Paul ...

To be sure, the Church permits Catholics to receive the Eucharist either on the tongue or in their hands, at the discretion of the one receiving holy Communion. Both modes of receiving holy ...

A priest in Florida bit a woman’s hand during a physical altercation while he was administering Communion to the congregants of his church, officials said.

ST. CLOUD, Fla. — An argument over holy communion at a Central Florida church ended with a priest biting a woman in the arm, according to the St. Cloud Police Department. It happened around 1:15 ...

Hymns played softly as a steady stream of members of St. Gregory Catholic Church in Phoenix walked slowly through the Gordon Hall to receive Holy Communion on Sunday.. The pastor of St. Gregory ...

A priest in Florida bit a woman's hand during a physical altercation while he was administering Communion to the congregants of his church, officials said. The incident between the priest and a ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A priest in Florida bit a woman's hand during a physical altercation while he was administering Communion to the congregants of his church, officials said.