The debate about denying Communion to politicians who support abortion must be handled in a pastoral way, not by public condemnations that seek to "excommunicate" Catholics who are not in line with church teaching, Pope Francis said.
During his return flight from Bratislava,
A reader asks: “Do Pope Francis or our bishops actually have authority to restrict the Latin Mass?” In his latest column, Monsignor Charles Pope explains, “Arguably, the older form of the Mass in use before 1962 cannot be abrogated, that is, it
A page on the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops answers a series of questions regarding the bishops' vote to approve drafting a document on the Eucharist during their spring general assembly June 16-18.
Presented in a question-and-answer format, the page
A reader asks: “In all the current discussions of denying Communion I have not seen any examples. Can you give any modern day examples of who is actually denied Communion?” In his latest column, Monsignor Charles Pope explains that “The single-largest group
In a new analysis, Russell Shaw looks ahead to the upcoming general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, during which the bishops are set to discuss a document on “Eucharistic coherence” that sprung forth from the controversy surrounding President Joe
After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops' upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the reception of Communion, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' president explained
It's "a fair question," said Bishop James S. Wall of Gallup, New Mexico, to ask whether U.S. bishops "are cherry-picking" from among several evils confronting society by "focusing on abortion" in relation to whether Catholic politicians who support it should receive Communion.
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As the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops prepares to hold its assembly next month, all the talk surrounding the meeting is whether or not the group will make a statement addressing pro-abortion Catholic politicians such as President Joe Biden and the reception
San Francisco's archbishop said May 17 that the "positive reaction" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has expressed about a Vatican official's letter to the U.S. bishops about Catholic politicians who support abortion receiving Communion "raises hope that progress can be made in this
Bishop Georg Batzing, president of the German bishops' conference, defended the plan for "ecumenically mindful" reception of Communion in Catholic and Protestant services during Germany's ecumenical congress May 13-16.
The bishop told KNA, Germany's Catholic news agency, May 11 that the services planned