When they receive, St. John Damascene counseled that they should put their hands “in the form of a cross.” They should receive right away, not when they return to their seat.

In the first four centuries after Christ, Christians would normally receive Communion every time they went to Mass. St. Augustine comments on this practice in his letter to Januarius, written ...

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Receiving Holy Communion in the hand "produces a growing weakening of a devout attitude toward the Most Holy Sacrament," wrote Archbishop Ranjith in the preface of a book from the Auxiliary Bishop ...

Bishop Stika lifted the restriction on reception of Communion on the tongue in late November. He had imposed it when he permitted the resumption of public Masses in the diocese at the end of May.

Catholics who voted Yes must go to confession before they can receive communion, according to a controversial bishop. Waterford and Lismore Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan said Yes voters would "have to ...