ROME-- A misunderstanding of the Second Vatican Council has led some Catholics to think that eucharistic adoration and Corpus Christi processions are pietistic practices that pale in importance to the ...

VATICAN CITY-- For seven centuries, Eucharistic adoration—praying before an exposed consecrated Communion host—was one of the most popular forms of devotion in the Roman Catholic Church, the focus of ...

Editor’s Note: This appeal to New York Catholics was originally posted by Msgr. Roger Landry to his personal website. It is reprinted here with permission. Dear Fellow Catholics in New York City, We ...

The Vatican held its first monthly eucharistic adoration in the area in front of St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday night. The first monthly eucharistic adoration in St. Peter's Square, March 14, 2023.

Bishop David L. Toups of Beaumont, Texas, swings a censer in front of the monstrance during Eucharistic adoration July 20, 2024, at the final revival night of the National Eucharistic Congress at ...

Youths kneel in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament during adoration at the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis Nov. 19, 2021. (Credit: CNS photo/Natalie Hoefer, The Criterion.) Listen ...

Amy Davis is always aware of God’s presence. She sees him in each sunny day. She feels a connection with him in all his creation. But there is something uniquely powerful about the one hour she spends ...

Vatican City (Fides Service) - From the encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia 25. The worship of the Eucharist outside of the Mass is of inestimable value for the life of the Church...If in our time ...

Pope Francis leads the Benediction following eucharistic adoration in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 2, 2013. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) (June 3, 2013) On a small side street in Bethlehem, just ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) For seven centuries, Eucharistic adoration — praying before an exposed consecrated Communion host — was one of the most popular forms of devotion in the Roman Catholic Church, the ...