What's the history behind communion in the Catholic Church? Yeah, I know the story about the last supper and all, but usually what's really behind rituals like this is an attempt to subvert some ...

I heard an argument recently about nonbelievers receiving holy communion in church. In Catholicism, it is explicitly warned against giving communion to non-Catholics. In other types of Christian ...

Faiths World Communion Sunday is about more than Christian unity (RNS) — World Communion Sunday should be understood as a ritual that helps us envision ourselves beyond our own religious, racial, ...

Professor Gruenwald’s lecture, titled “Ritual & Religion,” analyzes how ritual observance in Christianity and Judaism differ, but offer relatively similar functions. Gruenwald primarily discusses ...

One of the great joys of the Lenten season is getting to teach first communion classes to our sixth-grade students, an age in which they are almost no longer Sunday school students, but yet a little ...

garden Sunday as congregants celebrate the Flower Communion. The event takes place during the 11 a.m. service and it is followed by a picnic and entertainment from 12-3 p.m. on the church grounds at ...

LONDON — Two Anglican dioceses in Britain are changing how they handle communion in an attempt to reduce the spread of swine flu. Church of England parishes in Blackburn, northern England, and in ...