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Black Country Communion, the rock supergroup featuring Joe Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, and Derek Sherinian return with the latest single taken from their fifth studio album, V, due out on 14th June. The single is titled ‘Enlighten’ and explores themes of self-awareness and spiritual awakening, that are conveyed through Hughes’ emotive lyrics and the intricate guitar work of […]

A Catholic watchdog group is calling for a ban on a commercial airing in Italy because it depicts nuns eating potato chips instead of communion wafers. >> Read more trending news The Italian Association of Radio and Television Listeners said the commercial for Amica Chips is blasphemous and “offends the religious sensitivity of millions of […]

The Rev. James Richardson, bottom right, a deputy from the Diocese of Northern California, answers a question from the Rev. Melissa Adzima of Colorado, bottom left, a member of the House of Deputies Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music Committee, during a hearing on April 10. Watching on the Zoom screen are the chair of the […]

Chances are this Easter season your parish will celebrate someone’s first Holy Communion, which is a beautiful manifestation of joy of the Resurrection. In these days between Easter and Pentecost, we recall when the Church was first “knitted” together. Those early days of coming together under the guidance of the apostles were the seedling days […]

Amica Chips/Instagram A screengrab from the commercial, which has been criticized by Catholics. Rome CNN  —  A potato chip commercial that features nuns receiving the crispy snacks for communion is “blasphemy” and should be taken off the air, according to an Italian Catholic organization. The spot by Amica Chips features doe-eyed young nuns inside a […]

The Revd Professor Jerry Pillay, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), visited the team at the Anglican Communion Office (ACO) on 9 April, with Dr Vasile-Octavian Mihoc, Programme Executive for Ecumenical Relations and Faith and Order and Professor at the Ecumenical Institute, Bossey, France.  The purpose of his visit was to meet staff […]

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A potato chip commercial that features nuns receiving the crispy snacks for communion is “blasphemy” and should be taken off the air, according to an Italian Catholic organization. The spot by Amica Chips features doe-eyed young nuns inside a convent delighting that their communion wafer, known as […]

An Italian TV advert that depicts nuns eating crisps instead of altar bread while receiving holy communion has been accused of blasphemy by an outraged association of Catholic TV viewers. The 30-second advert for Amica Chips – one of Italy’s top crisps brands – takes place in a monastery and opens with nuns preparing to […]

PHOTO BY KITTY ALLEN EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA — A lot of people, young and young at heart, have an enjoyable Sunday afternoon at the Easter Eggstravaganza at DaySpring Community Church in DeLand. ‘The worship of water’ First Unitarian Universalist Church of West Volusia in DeLand will have a Water Communion at its 10:30 a.m. service Sunday, […]

A television advert in which Italian nuns are offered crisps instead of communion wafers has provoked the ire of conservative Catholics. They are demanding that the advert for Amica Chips be withdrawn immediately because it is blasphemous. In the 30-second advertisement, a group of young nuns are seen filing through a cloister into a chapel. […]