The U.S. bishops are working on a document on the Eucharist, which could be very helpful if they do it right. The chances are slim. The origins of the document go back to the bishops' fight with ...

It sometimes takes a mystic to pierce through the familiar aspects of our Catholic faith and help us appreciate them anew. That’s what St. John Paul II did for me and my Eucharistic devotion. I had ...

VATICAN CITY—“The Church draws her life from the Eucharist,” opens Pope John Paul II's latest encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church of the Eucharist), released Holy Thursday, April 17. “This ...

In a series about the Eucharist, Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese says the Eucharist is not to make Jesus present so we can worship him. Reese also writes about the Jewish roots of the Eucharist, a combination ...

A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Pius X, Pope “Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” – Mt 18:3, cited in “Quam ...

Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the early evening of Saturday October 15, over 100,000 children who made their First Holy Communion this year, mainly from Italy but also from other countries, ...

(RNS) — The Eucharist should be the center of Catholic life, but falling church attendance on Sundays shows that the center is crumbling. This, along with declining belief in the real presence of ...