If the concept of kenosis — a self-emptying of one’s own will in favor of complete conformity to the will of God — is best applied to Jesus’ Passion, another term can be applied to the Nativity: ...

One Sunday morning, many years ago, my 3-year-old daughter broke away from my hand and took off like the wind — running as fast as her half-pint legs would carry her — right back to the church. She ...

The post The Eucharist is not about adoring Jesus appeared first on RNS. (RNS) — Liturgy is one of the topics to be discussed in Pope Leo XIV’s first extraordinary consistory, or meeting of cardinals ...

If you hear about a place where the purest and most precious gem is given free of charge, and you can come daily and get as many gems as you want, will you come, as fast as you can, every day? In the ...

This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. The call for Eucharistic revival we have heard in the church is particularly ...

The Latin Mass, girl acolytes, women preaching, which politicians should be barred from receiving the Eucharist? What's the matter here? How has our central act of worship become the center of such ...

In the Eucharist, Jesus offers himself for the life of the world, Pope Francis proclaimed from the window of the Apostolic Palace on the solemnity of Corpus Christi. Speaking to a crowd huddled ...

Catholics need to recover a sense of awe and adoration before the Eucharist, knowing that it is "the real and loving presence of the Lord," Pope Francis told members of the committees organizing the ...

One cannot love and worship the Eucharist without compassion for the poor and marginalized, Pope Francis said at a Mass concluding Italy's eucharistic congress. "Let us recognize that the Eucharist is ...

Holy Week runs from Palm Sunday until Easter. Holy Thursday (sometimes called Maundy Thursday after the Latin mandatum or command to love one another) commemorates the Christian celebration of the ...