After Stuart Heyes was diagnosed with celiac disease last year, he learned that a gluten-free diet would prevent the pain he experienced after meals, which he described as “like the food is having a ...

The norms regarding gluten and Communion hosts that went viral this weekend are nothing new in the Catholic Church. On Saturday morning, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the ...

A community of Benedictine nuns known for inventing and distributing low-gluten Communion hosts has seen their business decimated by the pandemic, as the widespread suspension of public Masses last ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Roman Catholics who are not able to take common because of a sensitivity to gluten have an alternative thanks to the efforts of Staten Islanders and some dedicated Benedictine ...

ROOSEVELT, N.Y. (CNS) -- At Christ the King Church in Commack, a man receives Communion only in the form of wine. At St. Christopher's Church in Baldwin, a girl does the same. They are only two of ...

Communion to the 57,100 faithful went blessedly quick. For the crowd at Pope Benedict XVI‘s Mass at Yankee Stadium, participating in Communion – a highlight of the ceremony – posed a logistical ...

A fungus – not a miracle – caused a Communion host to turn red this summer at a South St. Paul church, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis said Wednesday. The archdiocese began an “exhaustive ...