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“I didn’t know that for the first 1,500 years of church history, everyone saw it as the literal body and blood of Christ and it wasn’t until 500 years ago that someone popularised the thought that it’s just a symbol and nothing more. I didn’t know that. I thought, ‘Wow, that’s something to consider.’” “For 1500 years it was never one guy and his pulpit being the centre of the church, it was the body and blood of Christ…” Despite what some bloggers and YouTubers are claiming, I don’t think we can say from this video and short clip alone...

A Satanic worship ritual – a so-called “black mass” – is scheduled to take place at the Kansas State Capitol on March 28. This is beyond outrageous. Extremists are orchestrating this vile act to publicly profane our faith in response to pro-life legislation. In this blasphemous ritual, they aim to denounce Christ and desecrate the Eucharist, the Body of Our Lord. It is a deliberate and horrifying act of sacrilege. Governor Kelly, who claims to be Catholic, has refused to take action. It’s up to us to demand the immediate cancellation of this sacrilege. Will you stand with us to...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., says she still receives communion in her home archdiocese despite the archbishop who governs that territory banning her from taking part in the sacrament due to her advocacy on behalf of legal abortion. Pelosi, a practicing Roman Catholic and outspoken supporter of legal abortion who served as the top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives for two decades, stated in an interview with The National Catholic Reporter published Tuesday she has been receiving communion despite being instructed not to do so. In 2022, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of the Archdiocese of San Francisco wrote...

CV NEWS FEED // Michigan’s bishops and other Catholics are crying foul after Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer posted a video mocking Holy Communion on social media. In the video, Whitmer stands wearing a Harris-Walz campaign hat and places a Doritos chip on the tongue of a kneeling pro-abortion writer. The song “Dilemma” by Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland plays in the video as the governor places the mock communion on the tongue of left-wing Canadian columnist and content creator Liz Plank. Plank, who has written for MSNBC and was behind an initiative called “Hotties for Harris,” has repeatedly expressed pro-abortion...

This is a video of Bishop Steven J. Lopes, bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, discussing the Eucharist.The Ordinariate is a diocese comprising the entire United States and Canada, for parishes that converted to Catholicism, usually from the Anglican church. It is part of the Latin church, but has its own distinctive liturgy based on the Sarum rite familiar to St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher. It is generally said ad orientem, and uses a separate missal known as Divine Worship. It has its own calendar of saints. Mass is said in high English....

“The Catholic Church teaches that when we partake of the Eucharist in Holy Communion, we are consuming the actual physical body of Jesus Christ (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1244, 1275, 1375).”

The same voice that spoke creation into being now declares bread and wine His body and blood. In each repeated consecration, we share in the first (CCC 1410). May my respect for this universal communion of love be reflected in my demeanor. God is spirit (John 4:24). The angels are spirit (Heb 1:14). Animals are flesh given the breath of life (Gen 7:15). Man is unique in creation—formed from the dust in the image and likeness of God Himself as the pinnacle of creation, he was given the breath of life (Gen 2:7) and dominion over all other creatures (Gen...

Kneeling for Eucharist Banned in Some Seminaries?! (YouTube video nterview of soon-to-be ex-seminarian by Timothy J. Gordon)

THOMASTON, CT (WFSB) - The Archdiocese of Hartford is looking into the possibility of an extremely rare miracle at Saint Thomas Church in Thomaston. This is potentially something incredible, and people Channel 3 talked to in Thomaston are taking notice. Father Joseph Crowley said there may have been an Eucharistic Miracle at the church earlier this month. “What happened is our lord multiplied himself,” Crowley said. Crowley said earlier this month, as an Eucharistic minister was handing out host, which is bread for communion, a miracle happened. The number of hosts that minister had actually went up instead of down....

WASHINGTON, D.C.—After being denied communion in her home city of San Francisco, House Speaker Pelosi has retaliated against the insult by introducing articles of impeachment against Pope Francis. "Denying me the Eucharist is a high crime. It's not even the Pope's job to deny communion to anyone," said Pelosi to gathered reporters in Washington. "Who does he think he is? He's gone mad with power! It is, therefore, my solemn Constitutional duty to draft articles of impeachment to be sent to the Senate so Pope Francis can be tried for his crimes." In the ensuing investigation, Congress found the Pope...

It is a fundamental doctrine of the Catholic Church that life begins at conception and ends at natural death and that an abortion ending human life is a grave sin, as is funding and promoting abortions. . It is also a fundamental doctrine of the Catholic Church that when presenting themselves to receive Holy Communion they should not be in a state of grave mortal sin. Yet here was the Vicar of Christ receiving President Joe Biden without any public rebuke or condemnation of Joe Biden, our second Catholic President, for his support of abortion on demand and its funding...

In an age of “cafeteria Catholics” who pick and choose which church doctrines they will adhere to and which they will ignore, an age where we have a Pope Francis, who would have us pray for the oceans and invites Amazonian “priests” and their fertility gods into the Vatican, it was refreshing to see a Catholic priest speak truth to power and tell a craven Catholic politician that abortion-on-demand is a moral evil opposed by the Catholic Church and to approve of it means you are unworthy of receiving the Sacrament of Holy Communion. You cannot be personally opposed to...

14 min video on what you need to know about the Eucharist in the Mass... as written by the Apostle John.....Pray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the almighty Father. The Mountain Top Mass Understand why we climb the mountain at Mass..

When God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac (Genesis 22), there was no questioning on Abraham’s part about what was intended. He understood precisely what was involved in such a thing. There was wood to be gathered, an altar of stones to be constructed, the victim to be bound, and then the slitting of its throat with the gushing forth of blood, all consummated in the burning fires of the now-completed offering. What Abraham did was repeated in a variety of forms throughout the ancient world. Homer writes about Poseidon being absent from the Hellenic scene in order to...

Will the church view the culture war through the gospel, or will it view the gospel through the culture war? One approach is biblical. The other is deadly.Thanks to a communion controversy being clarified by the U.S. Catholic bishops and a continued insistence by President Joe Biden that his public actions are actually deeply personal matters, abortion is the issue of the day — and with it, questions of religious faithfulness.Corporate media are teaming up with nominal Catholics to smear the faithful as bad-faith political actors, while traditional Catholics work to convince an unconvinceable political class that their deeply held...

After bishops endured several days of contentious debate over the Church’s Eucharistic disciplinary norms, a group of 60 U.S. Congressional representatives have weighed in, forcing the issue for some bishops from a theoretical debate to one far more practical, immediate, and closer to home. One congressman’s tweet poses a vexing test of leadership for U.S. bishops’ conference president Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, with similar tests for other bishops likely to follow. And for Gomez and the congressman, a clock is ticking, and the stakes are high. Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles. Credit: USCCB Share The Pillar The...

Every time I place Communion in someone's hand or tongue, it is an act of faith -- on my part and on that of the communicant. I say the words, "the body of Christ," to which the response is "Amen," meaning "it is true" or "let it be so" -- not always said with certainty but, often, with hope. This revered sacrament of Communion is meant to signify what the word means: with oneness, with unity. The contentious debate of this week's American Catholic bishops' meeting threatens to have this sacrament become a symbol of division and a political and...

New fossils reveal one of the largest land mammals ever found Monica Lewinsky responds to viral HBO intern's mistake: 'It gets better' More than 20,000 Christians have signed an online petition urging U.S. Cathholic bishops to "stop partisan politics," pushing back against their efforts to rebuke President Joe Biden and other Catholic politicians that support womens' reproductive rights. U.S. Catholic Bishops voted on Thursday to approve the drafting of a "teaching document" that would rebuke Biden and other Catholic lawmakers for receiving communion while supporting abortion. The result of the vote was announced on Friday, with a 168 in favor...

The U.S. bishops approved by a wide margin a plan to draft a document to examine the "meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the church" following a lengthy debate during their spring general assembly. The action to move forward passed with 168 votes in favor and 55 votes against it. There were six abstentions. The results, announced June 18, allows the bishops' Committee on Doctrine to draft the document and present it for discussion when the bishops reconvene in person in November. For more than two hours June 17, 43 bishops shared their views on whether such a...

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. Msgr. Jeffrey D. Burrill, USCCB general secretary, announced the appointment of Father Torres as a specialist for the Secretariat for Evangelization and Catechesis June 7 and thanked Orlando Bishop John G. Noonan for releasing the priest for service to the USCCB. In his new role, effective July 12, Father Torres "joins the conference as the Secretariat for Evangelization and Catechesis begins the promotion of...