The Eucharist is the source of mercy and the beating heart of the Church, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa has said. He was appointed Pope Francis' special envoy for the Italian National Eucharistic ...

The plight of migrants, as Cardinal Cupich and others emphasize, calls for compassionate action. Yet, when the Eucharist is carried into a volatile public square, its sacredness risks being ...

‘He’s given us his own Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity to nourish his life within us. What a difference that has to make in our daily life.’ Cardinal Raymond Burke at his shrine in La Crosse, ...

The small marble table from a Roman-era home was adorned with carved acanthus leaves and the body of Dionysus. When I saw it in the archaeological museum of Thessaloniki, Greece, I broke down crying, ...

You don’t have to play Jesus on TV to be Jesus to the world around you. And we can do this by making the Eucharist part of ...

The great philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” There are other animals who produce and respond to signs, but we humans are the only ones ...

Organized by the Napa Institute, a crowd of an estimated 2,000 people gathered in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan for a ...

Growing up in my small parish in Iowa, I always loved Communion — and not only because I knew that by the time Communion came around, Mass was almost over. But even when I was a kid, something within ...

She had missed the party, so I brought her a piece of cake. That is what we do, is it not? Who does not want a piece of cake? And bringing back a slice is a way of saying that someone was missed at ...

GREENFIELD — The rising and falling notes of a hymn drifted down Jefferson Boulevard. The singing of people, and an occasional bird, were among the few sounds. Sunday, a pilgrimage headed for the ...

Ironically, the problems that are causing the waning of the TLM might be remedied were the TLM more widely available.