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I was only a few paces out the doors of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington when I saw a middle-aged woman with a furrowed brow rush over to another departing Massgoer. Noting the camera around the woman’s neck, I assumed she was likely a tourist who had popped […]

Is the amount of money children get for their First Holy Communion ‘vulgar’?  For many people, the ritual is an important religious right of passage, signifying the age at which a child receives the Eucharist for the first time.  With Mass attendance waning, others simply see it as a nice opportunity for a celebration and […]

It’s a Saturday in early May and our doorbell rings in that way that can only mean that somebody under the age of 10 is leaning their entire weight on the buzzer. Sure enough, when I answer my son Ted’s friend – let’s call him Danny – is outside. Instead of his normal garb (hoodie […]

May is National Celiac Disease Awareness Month, which recognizes an autoimmune disease that renders a person highly intolerant to gluten. According to some experts, the disease affects 1% of the global population, and is on the rise. For Catholics, the celiac condition comes with a serious sacramental complication — how do you receive the Eucharistic […]

“It was really great to meet formally with Rev. Dr Setri Nyomi since his appointment as general secretary of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), an organisation which I once served as president from 2010 to 2017,” said Pillay. “It was good to catch up on the developments of the WCRC and their continued […]

A listener wrote to The Patrick Madrid Show to ask about receiving communion under both species. “I can’t fight the feeling that I should be receiving communion both by eating the body and drinking the blood as Jesus commanded. Since the Church teaches this is a heresy, should I refrain from receiving communion at all? […]

Adeem the Artist, Blue Plate Special, Knoxville Visitor Center, May 2024 (Photo by Luke Frazier) (Today’s article is by recurring guest writer and relatively recent Knoxville transplant Luke Frazier.) I’ve been to at least twenty five Blue Plate Special performances, the live radio show that WDVX puts on inside the Visit Knoxville Visitors Center on […]

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – This year the Advance/SILive.com is documenting the sights from one of the shared milestones for young Roman Catholics: First Holy Communion. This past weekend we photographed children making their first Communion at St. Charles and Our Lady Star of the Sea R.C. Church. In hundreds of images we captured what the […]

. Evie Culloty and family at the Holy Family Primary School First Holy Communion on Saturday at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church. Photo by Dermot Crean THE sun made a rare appearance on Saturday as  families arrived at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church. The occasion was First Holy Communion day for the second […]