Communion Archives

After Easter, Chileans on horseback take sacraments to homebound
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- April 27, 2017
The traditional Quasimodo’s Festival in Chile brings the sacraments to the old and infirm and parishioners who could not get to church on Easter Sunday. More than 4,000 people jumped on horses to visit households and give Communion.
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Theologian says ‘Amoris’ Communion debate is settled in Africa
- AfricaUND, Interviews
- March 21, 2017
As a major conference on Africa gets set to open in Rome, the principal organizer, Nigerian Father Paulinus Odozor, says the debate over Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics unleashed by ‘Amoris Laetitia’ is already settled in Africa — and that the answer is ‘no.’
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Keep searching for unity, pope tells German Lutherans, Catholics
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- February 7, 2017
In a speech to leaders of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, Pope Francis called all Christian faiths to work and pray together. The president of the German Catholic bishops’ conference told reporters that Christians should witness the Gospel in a language of dialogue, understanding and goodwill.
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Maltese bishops: Remarried Catholics ‘at peace’ can receive Communion

In guidelines for the application of Pope Francis’s “Amoris Laetitia”, the bishops of Malta say that divorced and civilly remarried Catholics who, with “an informed and enlightened conscience,” believe they’re at peace with God,”cannot be precluded from participating in the sacraments.”

Conscience can’t be the final arbiter on who gets Communion

Commentary

January 8, 2017

Typical pastors reading ‘Amoris’ are likely to stumble into accepting its central flaw, namely, assuming that an individual Catholic’s assessment of his or her own conscience is the sole criterion that governs a minister’s decision to give holy Communion to a member of the faithful.

A case study in communion for the divorced/remarried

Commentary

January 6, 2017

‘Amoris Laetita’ calls on pastors to distinguish among the circumstances of different cases in assessing whether a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic can receive communion, and here’s one hypothetical situation in which Father Paul Keller says his answer would be ‘yes.’