When a minister of the Church brings Communion, the sick or elderly person shares in the eucharistic meal of the community. This holy Communion manifests the support and concern of the community for ...

How we handle objects says a lot about how we regard them. When looking at fine jewelry, for example, we are mindful to handle the gems carefully. When observing fine works of art, we don’t even touch ...

Coming in hot and holy on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, is a portal that can connect you to a higher frequency, your own ...

Ambrosian nuns managed to save a relic of St. Carlo, who received his first holy Communion at the monastery on June 16, 1998. St. Carlo Acutis on his first Communion day (photo: Carlo Acutis ...

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A group of Catholics who marched to a Chicago immigration processing center three days ago and were prevented from giving Communion to detainees said they are not about to back down. Organizers said ...

A group of Catholic priests and hundreds of congregants marched about a mile to an ICE facility in Cook County, IL, to pray for the detainees and offer Holy Communion, but were barred from going ...

Rabbi Danny Schiff had a rule: no national letters. The community scholar of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh avoided open statements about far-off politics. But this month, he broke that ...

When a person dies, certain rituals are observed if the body remains at home overnight. Among Catholics, the funeral never ...

Can we somehow see each other, across all those dividing lines, as fellow members of God’s family? Can we recognize how much we need each other — all of us?

For your faithful people, Lord, life is changed, not ended.” (Funeral Liturgy, Preface for the Dead) As we enter into November, I often think about how remembering is not merely an act of the mind, it ...