By taking communion, a person says "I agree with the church's teachings" and "I am free from grave sin." To the church, aborting a fetus is no different than violently dismembering a 5-year-old child.

Lund-Molfese added that it's nothing new for U.S. bishops to withhold communion from those they disagree with: Bishops denied communion to slaveholders and segregationists in the past, he said ...

Many churches, of different faiths, celebrate communion. Some weekly, some monthly, some with or without symbolism, but in their own way they recognize the importance of a communion with the God ...

A committee of U.S. Catholic bishops is getting to work on a policy document that has stirred controversy among their colleagues before a word of it has even been written. The U.S. Conference of ...

The moment was fleeting. Barbara Johnson reached out to receive Holy Communion at her mother’s funeral Mass last month at St. John Neumann church in Gaithersburg, Md. The Rev. Marcel Guarnizo ...

The Vatican is reviewing claims of a “miracle” at a Catholic Church in Connecticut after parishioners reported that Communion hosts mysteriously multiplied at a March Mass.