Congregants attend an Indigenous blessing ceremony for Communion wafers that will be taken to a priest to be consecrated before they can be given out, in the Simojovel municipality, Mexico ...

Deacon Juan Pérez Gómez, left, participates in a blessing ceremony after collecting Communion wafers. He will deliver them to a priest for consecration before distributing them during his ...

COMMENTARY: Preaching, worship and charity aren’t rival qualities but form a unified mission — and the new pope must live and lead with all three. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Dean of the ...

Black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney Wednesday after the first round of voting by the College of Cardinals, indicating no consensus on a new pope. The 133 voting cardinals have ...

Peace be with you! Dearest brothers and sisters, this was the first greeting of the risen Christ, the Good Shepherd who gave His life for the flock of God. I, too, would like this greeting of ...

For Catholics: As Catholics, we fully participate in the celebration of the Eucharist when we receive Holy Communion. In order to be properly disposed to receive communion, participants should not ...

Names of frontrunners — to be taken with communion-wafer-sized grains of salt — have surfaced. One is Maltese Cardinal Mario Grech, who presided over the so-called synods, consultative bodies intended ...

Deacon Juan Pérez Gómez, left, takes part in a blessing ceremony after picking up Communion wafers that he will take to a priest to be consecrated before he can give them out in his next day ...

On May 4, living donor Brian Flynn, 54, who donated a part of his liver to then-4-year-old Richie Ramirez in 2020, surprised the young boy at his first communion in Brooklyn, New York. Richie had ...

SIMOJOVEL, Mexico (AP) — Deacon Juan Pérez Gómez helps tend to his small Tsotsil Catholic community in Mexico. He was ordained a deacon in 2022, during the papacy of the late Pope Francis. At ...