What's the history behind communion in the Catholic Church? Yeah, I know the story about the last supper and all, but usually what's really behind rituals like this is an attempt to subvert some ...

One of the great joys of the Lenten season is getting to teach first communion classes to our sixth-grade students, an age in which they are almost no longer Sunday school students, but yet a little ...

Faiths World Communion Sunday is about more than Christian unity (RNS) — World Communion Sunday should be understood as a ritual that helps us envision ourselves beyond our own religious, racial, ...

I heard an argument recently about nonbelievers receiving holy communion in church. In Catholicism, it is explicitly warned against giving communion to non-Catholics. In other types of Christian ...

FARGO – The Unitarian Universalist Church of Fargo-Moorhead, 121 9th St. S., invites the community to attend a special Flower Communion worship service at 11 a.m. Sunday. Warren Christensen will ...

The Catholic archbishop of San Francisco says that U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is no longer allowed to receive Communion because of her vocal support for abortion rights. Salvatore Cordileone, the ...

LONDON — Two Anglican dioceses in Britain are changing how they handle communion in an attempt to reduce the spread of swine flu. Church of England parishes in Blackburn, northern England, and in ...

garden Sunday as congregants celebrate the Flower Communion. The event takes place during the 11 a.m. service and it is followed by a picnic and entertainment from 12-3 p.m. on the church grounds at ...