In their letter to the Vatican, the diocesan priests specifically question the bishop’s actions to impede the faithful from kneeling at built-in altar rails when that is the norm for a parish.

A $2 million tabernacle was stolen and the altar vandalized at a Catholic church in Park Slope over the weekend, police said. “I was here and just sick to the pit of my stomach!" Father Frank Tumino ...

It is time for the Church to seriously consider the application of Canon 915 in this case. The refusal of Communion is not a ...

Traslacion procession tested limits of faith, crowd control amid calls for catechesis and reflection beyond ritual ...

We know well the words that open today's Gospel: "Behold the Lamb of God." We hear them at every Mass as the priest lifts up the host before Holy Communion. In that moment, our attention is drawn away ...

(RNS) — After Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte issued a pastoral letter outlining that Catholics are expected to stand during the reception of Holy Communion in the diocese — and ...

The bishop of the Arlington Catholic Diocese announced last week that girls and women will now be allowed to serve at altars during high school and parish Masses, a landmark change for one of the ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role. New archaeological finds add to evidence that the Maya city of Tikal in ...

Archaeologists Unearth 1,300-Year-Old Bread Stamped With ‘Rare’ Jesus Image and a Hidden Message ...

Sister Lucia Anne Le of the Benedictine Monastery of Tucson got a new job last week. She traded in her sewing needles - after 15 years of making custom vestments at the monastery - for a greasy, noisy ...

The following was the keynote address at TIME DRAWN INTO ETERNITY: Sacred Time and the Liturgical Calendar, a conference held by the Te Deum Institute of Sacred Liturgy, Diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma. I ...

Sung prayer has been offered in Westminster Abbey nearly every day for over a thousand years. Today, services are sung daily during term time by the world-renowned Choir of Westminster Abbey, and by ...