Participation in the Eucharist transforms believers into the body of Christ and offers a remedy to the divisions affecting ...

For many Christians, communion is one of the most sacred aspects of their religion and an important religious tradition. You may be familiar with some communion scripture, or perhaps you've shopped ...

The Latin Mass, girl acolytes, women preaching, which politicians should be barred from receiving the Eucharist? What's the matter here? How has our central act of worship become the center of such ...

This Sunday’s readings call the faithful to reconsider the most holy body and blood of Christ in light of extreme divisions facing our country and world. This Sunday, the readings draw out three ...

Scripture’s description of the church is more than a comparison to human anatomy. I have preached 1 Corinthians 12 more times than I can count. I have preached it at staff retreats with lukewarm ...

I made a profession of faith at a summer camp when I was 16 years old, and I was tempted to get baptized right then and there, in the pool at the camp. My motivation to move quickly had little to do ...

“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ,” as St. Jerome said, and the hope for any Eucharistic renewal among Catholics in the U.S. depends squarely on them knowing Jesus Christ in the word so ...

Christian tradition diverges on the nature and meaning of the Lord’s Supper. Lent is a season of preparation in which Christians get ready to celebrate the momentous events of Christ’s death, ...

François Turretin (1623-1687) was a Reformed Protestant theologian and was generally considered to be the best Calvinist apologist besides John Calvin himself. In his primary work, Institutes of ...

I did not go to Mass this weekend. I am grateful that my parish and diocese have suspended the public celebration of the Eucharist for the foreseeable future in response to the coronavirus outbreak.