Holy Eucharist

Belgian church with lay-led liturgies loses parish status

03/27/2024 at 8:57 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Luke Coppen, The Pillar, March 27, 2024 Belgium’s Mechelen-Brussels archdiocese has stripped a community of its parish status, amid a disagreement over its lay-led liturgies, while specifying that the community will retain some ongoing and unspecified connection to the Church, which the... read more

Vatican Doctrine Office Encourages Single Mothers to Receive Communion After Confession

12/15/2023 at 2:08 PM By Kevin Edward White

The prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith wrote the letter in response to an email he received from a Latin American bishop, noting that Pope Francis had also received several letters from laypeople on the same topic. By Courtney Mares/CNA, National Catholic Register,... read more

Cardinal Sarah addresses First African Congress on liturgy

12/10/2023 at 9:51 AM By Kevin Edward White

By Catholic News Service/ ACI Africa, December 10, 2023 The emphasis of cultural elements over Christian ones during liturgical celebrations is a distortion of the paschal mystery that defines the liturgy, Cardinal Robert Sarah has said. In his homily during the opening Mass of the... read more

Vatican says transgender people can be baptized and become godparents — but with caveats

11/09/2023 at 5:07 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Y C. Mandler, CBS News, November 9, 2023 The Vatican announced Wednesday that transgender people can be baptized and become godparents under certain conditions, as well as serve as witnesses to church weddings. The statement, which was written in Portuguese, was made in response to a... read more

A look behind the WYD Eucharist controversy

08/14/2023 at 1:47 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Filipe D'Avillez, The Pillar, August 11, 2023 . 12:08 PM While Lisbon’s World Youth Day is over, debate lingers over some liturgical decisions made during the week-long festival held for Catholic pilgrims from around the world. Pope Francis has said that... read more

Corpus Christi: Gut Check

06/10/2023 at 5:46 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Father John Zuhlsdorf, One Peter Five, June 10, 2023 For this Sunday in many places even using the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite, there is an “external celebration” of the Feast of Corpus Christi, which was properly last Thursday, that day of the week being a special moment to honor the... read more

Pope Paul VI Promoted Communion on the Tongue

06/10/2023 at 4:50 PM By Kevin Edward White

By William Bloomfield, One Peter Five, June 10, 2023 Saturday within the Octave of Corpus Christi Editor’s note: as part of our campaign for the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus in June, we offer this article for our readers to share especially with their Catholic friends and family (as... read more

The Eucharist & Eulogies: Are They Connected?

04/20/2023 at 10:24 PM By Kevin Edward White

By John M. Grondelski, New Oxford Review, April 2023 John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is a former Associate Dean of the School of Theology at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. All views expressed herein are exclusively his. Item One: We’re in year one of a three-year... read more

Cardinal Roche and the Trad View of the New Mass

04/18/2023 at 11:07 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Jose Antonio Ureta, One Peter Five, April 20, 2023 Cardinals Arthur Roche and Raniero Cantalamessa indirectly acknowledged (perhaps unintentionally) what critics of Paul VI’s Novus Ordo Missae have said for over fifty years: The new rite corresponds to a new theology that... read more

Eucharistic pilgrimage expected to ‘restrict’ adoration in Chicago archdiocese

04/17/2023 at 5:28 PM By Kevin Edward White

The Pillar, April 14, 2023 The Archdiocese of Chicago is expected to restrict the exposition of the Eucharist during a national Eucharistic pilgrimage that will traverse the Chicago region next year, ahead of the Eucharistic Congress scheduled for next July. Bishop Andrew Cozzens... read more

A Radical Proposal for the USCCB’s Eucharistic Revival

02/12/2023 at 1:30 PM By Kevin Edward White

Four simple changes to how we receive Communion will do far more to create a Eucharistic revival than any multi-million dollar program. By Fr. John A. Perricone, Crisis Magazine, January 9, 2023 Ominous. It is the only word which can adequately describe the 2020 Pew Research Study. It polled... read more

Holy Eucharist

Belgian church with lay-led liturgies loses parish status

Vatican Doctrine Office Encourages Single Mothers to Receive Communion After Confession

Cardinal Sarah addresses First African Congress on liturgy

Vatican says transgender people can be baptized and become godparents — but with caveats

A look behind the WYD Eucharist controversy

Corpus Christi: Gut Check

Pope Paul VI Promoted Communion on the Tongue

The Eucharist & Eulogies: Are They Connected?

Cardinal Roche and the Trad View of the New Mass

Eucharistic pilgrimage expected to ‘restrict’ adoration in Chicago archdiocese

A Radical Proposal for the USCCB’s Eucharistic Revival

What’s Really Needed for a “Eucharistic Revival”?

Archbishop Chaput: ‘Biden is not in communion with the Catholic faith’

Pope Francis: Catholics need better understanding of the Mass

Catholic lawmakers who backed Colorado’s abortion law should refrain from Communion, state’s bishops say

Nancy Pelosi’s Communion ban will apply in Diocese of Arlington, bishop says

Receiving Holy Communion: 2 Basic Requirements Catholics Must Meet

Meet the ‘Eucharistic Preachers’

Catholic Bishop Agrees: Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians Should Not Present Themselves for Communion

The Church Unmasked