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Deacon Rachid Murad offers the chalice to a communicant after his ordination to the diaconate at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 25, 2019. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithFaith in Focus
Terence Sweeney
After two years without it, I fear we are forgetting what is so precious about Christ’s blood and the reception of Communion in both forms.
FaithShort Take
Patrick Cullinan
It is my hope that the bishops’ campaign inspires not just an intellectual conversion but a religious conversion, propelling American Catholics to fight for a more just economy and a more Christian society.
The Eucharist rests on a golden paten, stacked atop a golden chalice, upon the altar
FaithNews
Thomas J. Reese
Pope Francis's latest apostolic letter neglects to address the needs of the vast majority of Catholics, who accept the Novus Ordo but still do not fully understand the Eucharist.
FaithEditorials
The Editors
The danger we face as a church is not so much hostility toward the church and its sacraments, but apathy.
FaithFaith and Reason
Joe Laramie, S.J.
The writings of St. Ignatius Loyola and the traditional Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart highlight a specific aspect of the Eucharist: friendship.
FaithInterviews
J.D. Long García
Pew reports that only 32 percent of U.S. Catholics believe in the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The U.S. bishops are trying to make that number go up.