Today we celebrate the feast often called by the Latin name Corpus Christi, “the body of Christ.” As Paul suggests in 1 Corinthians 10, this term can have two meanings: the body of Christ that we ...

I did not go to Mass this weekend. I am grateful that my parish and diocese have suspended the public celebration of the Eucharist for the foreseeable future in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

When the churches closed for public worship last year at the outset of the pandemic, we livestreamed Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Camden, New Jersey, where I live in ...

If the Christian body is a body meant to glorify God, the approach to health care that should characterize Christians may be quite different from those not formed by the practices of the church.

I made a profession of faith at a summer camp when I was 16 years old, and I was tempted to get baptized right then and there, in the pool at the camp. My motivation to move quickly had little to do ...

On the surface of things, there’s no mystery how one ought to receive Communion: Stand up, file out of the pew, wait your turn in line, eat the Host, and head back to the pew. But beneath these ...

"Get ready for a trip!" That could well be our call to worship as we begin the celebration of this "Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ." We start this journey remembering the long trek of our ...

A caricature of Jesus as a dashboard toy maintains the beard and long hair of more traditional depictions(DigitalAlexander; Flickr.com/CC/by-nc-nd/2.0) The execution ...