Our response to the gift of the Eucharist November 29, 2021By Archbishop William E. Lori Catholic Review Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Eucharist, Feature As Christmas approaches and as the pandemic seems to be easing, people are looking to get back to “normal.” Many are looking forward to Christmas parties and gift-giving. They are venturing into stores to buy gifts, or they are ordering them online, perhaps as never before.
U.S. bishops approve document on Eucharist and investing guidelines in Baltimore meeting November 17, 2021By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021 “The document is meant to be a resource,” Archbishop Lori said. “It’s meant to emphasize points of eucharistic doctrine and practice that may have been neglected over time – that needs, in our times, fresh emphasis.”
U.S. bishops approve Communion statement that aims to ‘retrieve and revive’ understanding November 17, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, World News The U.S. bishops approved their statement on the Eucharist with 222 “yes” votes Nov. 17, the second of two days of public sessions during their Nov. 15-18 fall general assembly.
In-person meeting finds bishops more reflective on meaning of Eucharist November 17, 2021By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, World News Coming together for the first time in two years has been good for the bishops of the United States, in the judgment of Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Archbishop Lori will preach homily as U.S. bishops return to Baltimore November 12, 2021By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021 When the U.S. bishops gather in person as a body for the first time since 2019 at the Marriott Baltimore Waterfront Nov. 15-17, one of the most anticipated topics is a document regarding the Eucharist.
The miracle we share at every Mass November 9, 2021By Greg Erlandson Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Guest Commentary Much of the media coverage this year has focused on whether it will call out Catholic politicians who support abortion rights. According to the draft sent to the bishops in September and subsequently leaked to The Pillar, it does not.
RADIO INTERVIEW: The Eucharist, Joys and Challenges of Catholic Journalism November 8, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Christopher Gunty talks with Los Angeles Bishop Robert Barron about the Eucharist and why the U.S. bishops are hoping for a revival of eucharistic devotion. The second segment features George Matysek Jr, new managing editor of Catholic Review Media, discussing the joys and challenges of working in Catholic journalism.
Proposed Eucharist document needs consensus, dialogue panelists say November 4, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, World News The much-awaited proposed statement on the Eucharist from the U.S. bishops is striving for a consensus that may be hard to come by, said a longtime church journalist.
Bishops’ focus on Communion crisis highlights bigger issue, theologians say November 3, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, World News When the U.S. bishops highlighted Communion in their spring meeting, announcing their plans for both a document on the Eucharist and a three-year eucharistic revival, they emphasized that they were responding to a lack of understanding among many Catholics about something that is central to the faith.
Those ‘centered on Eucharist’ always have sense of gratitude, Cardinal Dolan says at Naval Academy October 31, 2021By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan told a Catholic audience at the U.S. Naval Academy that he is apprehensive about “the lack of gratitude festering in our culture of entitlement” and there’s an urgency for us to “rediscover a sense of gratitude.”
Eucharistic revival could ‘move needle’ on understanding of Real Presence October 27, 2021By Chaz Muth Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Evangelization, Feature, News, Video, World News A 2019 Pew Research Center study showed that 69% of all self-identified U.S. Catholics said they believed the bread and wine used at Mass are not Jesus, but instead are “symbols of the body and blood of Jesus Christ.” The other 31% said they believed in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.
In revering Eucharist, young Hickory parishioners follow example of fallen Italian October 25, 2021By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News, Saints In the midst of peers who might be non-religious, these “normal” kids, just like Blessed Carlo Acutis, became disciples of Christ not just at church and the streets, but on the web.
