The biannual U.S. Catholic bishops’ meeting received more than its usual attention this June due to one particular item on its agenda: a proposed document on the Sacrament of the Eucharist, a ritual ...

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VATICAN CITY—“The Church draws her life from the Eucharist,” opens Pope John Paul II's latest encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church of the Eucharist), released Holy Thursday, April 17. “This ...

The U.S. bishops are working on a document on the Eucharist, which could be very helpful if they do it right. The chances are slim. The origins of the document go back to the bishops' fight with ...

Jesus has taught about the Eucharist in the Sunday Gospels of roughly the last month. From his “sign” of multiplying the loaves and fishes through his Eucharistic Discourse taken from John 6, Jesus ...

A. The word Eucharist strictly means pleasing, and this Sacrament is so called because it renders us most pleasing to God by the grace it imparts, and it gives us the best means of thanking Him for ...

(RNS) — It didn’t take long for bishops to refer to the ‘issue of our Catholic president receiving Holy Communion.’ (RNS) — The opening day of the American Catholic bishops’ spring meeting on ...