If the Church were to change its rules on shared Eucharistic Communion it would “go against Revelation and the Magisterium”, leading Christians to “commit blasphemy and sacrilege,” an Italian ...

Pope Francis waves as he leaves at the end of a Jubilee vigil prayer in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 2, 2016. REUTERS/Tony Gentile UPDATE: 6:38 a.m. EDT — Pope Francis urged Roman ...

OPEN COMMUNION: Kenova United Methodist Church offers a New Year’s Eve open communion hour from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.

What is it about Communion in the hand versus Communion on the tongue? I’ve been in a lot of Catholic contexts, and nothing — apart from typical hot-button issues like abortion and gay marriage — ...

Having the choice of taking Communion made it clear to me that I was hungry for Christ. When I was a child, my father, a secular Jew, paid me a dollar for each volume of the encyclopedia I read. He ...

(RNS) The idea of online Communion raises fundamental questions about the definition of community, individual participation, the role of tradition and basic theological understandings of the meaning ...

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Into a microphone in Omaha, Neb. last week, Methodist Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam read the ritual of Holy Communion. In 1,500 churches in Nebraska and Iowa, loudspeakers broadcast those words while ...