On Sept. 14, I recommended Catholic schools start an effort Oct. 7 taking school children to Mass on First Fridays through June so that, at least once in their lives, they would fulfill Our Lord’s ...

Usually when I go to Eucharistic Adoration, I plant myself in a spot from which I can clearly see the monstrance, not too close and not too far away from the altar and as close to the center of the ...

There are many different ways of praying. After giving a strong foundation to its teachings on prayer, the Catechism of the Catholic Church shifts and begins to dissect the many different ways of ...

Eucharistic adoration—a practice with roots in the medieval church—is now an integral part of ministry to young Catholics. It has become a staple of youth retreats and campus ministry activities, ...

ROME-- A misunderstanding of the Second Vatican Council has led some Catholics to think that eucharistic adoration and Corpus Christi processions are pietistic practices that pale in importance to the ...

She is the compassionate mother who follows her children across oceans and hears their cries in a country thousands of miles from the homeland of Vietnam. The divinity Quan Am -- literally, Regarder ...

VATICAN CITY-- For seven centuries, Eucharistic adoration—praying before an exposed consecrated Communion host—was one of the most popular forms of devotion in the Roman Catholic Church, the focus of ...