For Catholics: As Catholics, we fully participate in the celebration of the Eucharist when we receive Holy Communion ... the obligation to make an act of perfect contrition, including the ...

The Holy Communion is being distributed among the cardinals ... becoming the body and blood of Jesus Christ. It is a central act of worship in the Catholic church where believers and worshippers ...

Some five hours after the opening Mass, the cardinals were to process into the Sistine Chapel, swear an oath to uphold the ...

Meaghan Shields grew up poor in a “Catholic bubble.” The help I received didn’t feel like pity or charity, she writes. It ...

Leading his first Easter Sunday Mass as Washington’s new archbishop, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said the Resurrection of ...

The first things we should tell the priest in Confession are the time of our last Confession, and whether we said the penance and went to Holy Communion ... renew the Act of Contrition.

She agreed to go with the promise she would be taught to read and write so that she could study the catechism and make her First Holy Communion ... one small act of virtue at a time can win ...