Five minutes from here, the landscape is all ash and ruin. But inside this small chapel, there is a kaleidoscope of stained-glass light and a single man sitting bathed in that light. The man is ...

Eucharistic Adoration in Uganda is attracting more lay people to prayer and encouraging vocations, an international Catholic charity reports. Sister Consolate Shirima of the Sisters of Perpetual ...

The Year of the Holy Cross in Ukraine will conclude on the Sept. 14 feast day with a liturgy and the Stations of the Cross at the Shrine of the Lord’s Passion in Sharhorod, Ukraine. Dioceses in Italy, ...

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 ...

more than 11 years ago. "That's for you," she whispered. The priest had just been calling for additional volunteers to take one hour a week to pray in a tiny chapel just off the main sanctuary. That ...

The prayer was the culmination of a worldwide day of fasting, prayer, and penance for peace in the world called for by the Pope amid the escalating war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Pope ...

Youths kneel in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament during adoration at the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis Nov. 19, 2021. (Credit: CNS photo/Natalie Hoefer, The Criterion.) Listen ...

In the current practice of the Catholic Church in the United States, people are free to receive Communion either in the open hand or on the tongue. Although I have not conducted a survey, my ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (RNS) — To bring healing from the ashes of the most destructive wildfires in California history, hundreds across the country practice Eucharistic adoration, prayer before an altar ...

Catholic bishops have called for “Eucharistic adoration in every church in Europe” to pray for peace in Ukraine on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross this week. The Council of European ...