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First Holy Communion: Do families deserve 'secular alternatives to religious ceremonies'?

With First Holy Communion season now at an end, debate has turned to whether the tradition will stay mainstream for much ...
National Catholic Reporter

Cupich: Standing, not kneeling, for Communion a 'powerful symbolic expression'

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago is advocating for Catholic faithful to receive holy Communion standing — the normative posture established by the U.S. Catholic bishops — as part of a renewed ...

I’m a school principal. I find it unsettling what First Holy Communion has become

I was out for a few drinks and got chatting to a psychologist. She began telling me about her daughter’s upcoming First ...
National Catholic Register

Does Communion Under One Kind Mean We Receive ‘Less’ of the Eucharist?

‘Since Christ is whole and entire in each of the Eucharistic species,’ says the Catechism, ‘anyone who has received either of the consecrated species has received Christ whole and entire.’ Pascal ...
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The Boston PilotOpinion

Distribution of Holy Communion -- More reports

We interrupt this Communion Rite . . . These may not be the introductory words used, but they might well be. At some point, the principal celebrant intervenes with something like this: ...