STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Many children completed the sacrament of Holy Communion at Blessed Sacrament R.C. Church in West Brighton Saturday morning. Girls donned traditional white dresses with lace veils ...

A first Communion Mass at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville, Louisiana, was disrupted May 11 after a teenager attempted to enter the church with a rifle. Parishioners prevented the young ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Many children completed the sacrament of Holy Communion at St. Patrick’s Church in Richmond on Saturday morning. Girls donned traditional white dresses with lace veils while the ...

In an atmosphere of celebration, joy, and devotion, some 25,000 people, including 1,600 children in white robes and traditional costumes who received their first Communion, participated Sunday in the ...

ABBEVILLE, La. — A potentially dangerous situation was stopped Saturday at a church in Vermillion Parish, south of Lafayette. A teen, dressed in black, and armed with a rifle, was stopped by ...

Fritz Beyer awaits the start for the First Communion Mass at St. Michael Catholic Church in Greenfield. The vestibule was filled with little white dresses, veils and suits before the First Communion ...

UPDATE: Abbeville Police say they arrested a teenager at St. Mary Magdalen Church Saturday morning after getting a report of a suspicious person with a gun. The 16-year-old was confronted by ...

For Jacob Grice, preparing for his First Communion has meant more screen time than class time. Weekly catechism lessons on Zoom, online Mass and a virtual retreat were just a few of the ways the ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives who is banned from communion in her home city of San Francisco because she supports abortion rights, met Pope ...

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received Holy Communion during a Wednesday Mass at the Vatican despite her unwavering support for abortion rights. Pope Francis presided over the morning Mass, which ...

Father Tito Robles of Lomas de Zamora, Argentina, was interrupted by two policement while he celebrated a first Communion. (Credit: Screen caption Twitter.) Listen ROME – Despite knowing that ...

A Catholic priest in Florida bit a woman at Mass when she reached her hand into a bowl of Communion wafers, but church officials said he was stopping a desecration of the sacrament. The fracas at St.