For Catholics: As Catholics, we fully participate in the celebration of the Eucharist when we receive Holy Communion. In order to be properly disposed to receive communion, participants should not ...

When we receive our Lord in holy Communion, we should receive him in the way we encounter a loved one: with reverence, care, gentleness and humility. For in the holy Eucharist, the Catechism of ...

Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula leads the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion at the Manila Cathedral at 3 pm on Good ...

From his first day as leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics, Pope Francis signaled his desire to break from ...

Every Holy Week, streets across the Philippines transform into open-air ... fasting and abstinence, receiving the sacrament of confession, or “Visita Iglesia,” a Filipino tradition of visiting ...

Pope Francis, 88, the oldest pope in over a century, died Monday morning, though quiet discussions on who could succeed him ...

Do I return the intimate focus of Christ in receiving Holy Communion, or do I receive unworthily like Judas Iscariot? Will I remain in my sin or will I repent and confess my failures? Such ...

Cardinal Tagle has long been considered one of the most likely papabili to succeed Francis. Cardinal Zuppi has been the ...

The world is now waiting with bated breath to see who will succeed Pope Francis, the first Latin American Pope, after his ...

Pope Francis’ funeral will be a more modest event, after the pontiff broke with longstanding Vatican tradition to simplify ...

Pope Francis ’ funeral has been set for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, and a viewing of his body will begin on ...