Eucharist Archives

USCCB webpage answers questions about vote on Communion document

Jun 27, 2021

A page on the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops answers a series of questions regarding the bishops’ vote to approve drafting a document on the Eucharist during their spring general assembly June 16-18.

By Catholic News Service

Bishop: Unity cannot be achieved by being silent about divisions

Jun 25, 2021

In a new column, Bishop Thomas Paprocki notes the importance of the U.S. Bishops’ vote to draft a document on the Eucharist as what’s needed to continue dialogue and mend the division among the nation’s prelates.

By John Lavenburg

Bishops’ ‘referendum’ on Biden may not have been that at all

Jun 19, 2021

In a seemingly dramatic move, three-quarters of America’s bishops voted for a controversial document on the Eucharist that could set the stage for a showdown with President Joe Biden. The key word in that sentence, however, is “seemingly, “because in the Catholic Church, things are rarely quite as they seem.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Bishops vote for doc on communion with reverberations for Biden

Jun 19, 2021

U.S. Bishops voted overwhelmingly to approve a proposal from the U.S. Bishops Conference doctrinal committee to draft a document on the Eucharist, which could have implications for Catholic politicians receiving the Eucharist, despite last minute pleas from some of the nation’s top prelates to do otherwise.

By John Lavenburg

Bishops debate politics of Communion doc, vote to be revealed today

Jun 18, 2021

In a spirited two hour long conversation Thursday, both critics and champions of a U.S. Bishops Conference doctrinal committee proposal to draft a document on the Eucharist cited timing and pro-choice politicians as reasons why they were for or against the proposal.

By John Lavenburg

U.S. bishops open meeting with disagreement over Eucharist document

Jun 17, 2021

A motion to give individual bishops unlimited time to speak on a U.S. Bishops Conference doctrinal committee proposal to draft a document on the Eucharist was ultimately denied at day one of their spring meeting Wednesday, but not before a spirited, near hour-long, debate on the timing of the proposal.

By John Lavenburg

USCCB appointment signals preparation for National Eucharistic Revival

Jun 8, 2021

Ahead of the bishops’ spring assembly, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington has appointed Father Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, to help implement a planned multiyear National Eucharistic Revival.

By Catholic News Service

2 Catholic bishops at odds over Biden receiving Communion

May 9, 2021

They share Catholicism as a faith and California as their home base. Yet there’s a deep gulf between Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego in the high-stakes debate over whether politicians who support abortion rights should be denied Communion.

By David Crary