The bishops of England and Wales announced this week that the distribution of Holy Communion from the chalice during Mass will resume starting Holy Thursday. The U.K. bishops’ announcement comes after ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston-area Archdiocese Cardinal Daniel DiNardo advised Saturday that parishioners limit physical contact at mass. In the wake of the spread of coronavirus, the ...

As fears of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus continue, Birmingham’s Catholic bishop has suspended the use of the sacramental chalice as part of taking communion. Bishop Robert J. Baker sent a ...

This year amid the flu epidemic in the United States, several dioceses have issued recommendations for receiving Communion, offering the sign of peace and even attending Mass. According to a report by ...

The Archdiocese of Newark is lifting COVID-19 restrictions on using a shared chalice for Communion and holy water in the Catholic churches it oversees in four New Jersey counties just prior to Easter ...

The Archdiocese of Newark directed its parishes to stop sharing wine in communal chalices and cease having parishioners shake hands during the “sign of peace” in an effort to prevent the transmission ...

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Deacon Rachid Murad offers the chalice to a communicant during his ordination to the diaconate at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 25, 2019. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) WASHINGTON ...

The Rev. Chinthaka Perera gives the Communion chailce to a woman during Mass at St. Boniface Martyr Church in Sea Cliff, New York, on April 25, 2019. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz) When the Spanish flu was ...

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have recommended the suspension of the sharing of the chalice at communion as the spread of swine flu continues, it was announced today. Some bishops have ...