Let Communion Unite Christians
Patrick Dacey, Johannesburg – Dutch Cardinal Wim Eijk of Utrecht has taken issue with Pope Francis’ supposed failure to give
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Church Eucharist Your Letters
Church Ecumenical dialogue Eucharist Your Letters
Communion For All is Dishonest
At Communion, especially at nuptial and funeral Masses which invariably include a broad spectrum of Christians, we experience a heightened sense of the unfortunate divisions in the body of Christ.
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Church Eucharist
Cardinal: Communion Cannot be Shared with Friends like Beer or Cake
Holy Communion is exclusively for Catholics in a state of grace and not something to be shared between friends like beer or cake, said a former senior adviser to two popes.
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Church Eucharist Feast Days Fr John Allen Green
Corpus Christi: Shining Like the Sun
Fr John Allen Green OFM – Our first window opens on March 18, 1958. Thomas Merton’s experience in Louisville happened
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Eucharist Feast Days Fr Ralph de Hahn
Communion: Jesus Gives Himself to Us and We Receive Him
There are great volumes of books and articles published on the mystery of the Blessed Eucharist, and still, with this treasure within our grasp, with all our weekly and even daily Masses, many of us still struggle to believe, accept and live the mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ.
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Pope Francis to Germany’s Bishops: Try to Agree on Communion Question
In February, the Vatican statement said that more than three-quarters of the members of the German bishops’ conference had approved a pastoral handbook titled “Walking with Christ: In the Footsteps of Unity: Mixed Marriages and Common Participation in the Eucharist”.
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Church Ecumenical dialogue Eucharist
I Still Don’t Understand! Communion for Non-Catholics?
With regard to the ongoing debate on Communion for non-Catholics, the Catechism of the Catholic Church in the section on the Seven Sacraments of the Church says: “Only validly ordained priests can preside at the Eucharist and consecrate the bread and the wine so that they become the Body and Blood of the Lord” (1411).
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Church Eucharist Pope Francis
Pope: Present in the Eucharist, Jesus Transforms those who Receive Him
Despite the chill and gusts of wind in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis welcomed the beginning of spring with an
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Church Eucharist Sacraments
German Bishops: Communion in Mixed Marriages Allowed
The German bishops’ conference continues to develop its recent decision to allow non-Catholic spouses in mixed-denomination marriages to receive Communion
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