VATICAN CITY — The secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship wrote to a petitioner last month rejecting their appeal against the Bishop of Knoxville’s decision to ban temporarily reception of ...

It is unclear whether reception of the Eucharist in the hand has been formally permitted in Uganda, or has existed as a custom. A priest offers communion to a parishioner during Mass in an African ...

Charlotte priests appeal to Rome as episcopal authority collides with Catholic tradition.

You would have thought that a straightforward letter from the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Luis Ladaria — urging the bishops of the United States to slow down ...

While the Christian faith calls for purity before one receives the sacrament of Holy Communion, the decision is left to the conscience of the believer as there is no definite way of enforcing the ...

The Archbishop of Kampala issued a decree Saturday on the proper celebration of the Eucharist, which forbade the reception of Holy Communion in the hand and reaffirmed that those "living in illicit ...