Why Do Catholics Take Communion Every Week?

Q. Where does it say in the Bible that you have to take communion every week?
A. It does not say anything about the frequency of communion in the Bible. Jesus only says, “as often as you do this” That is why there is such diversity in
Sola-Scriptura-Christendom. Some churches offer communion four times a year (every [...]

Why Do Some People Receive Communion on the Tongue?

Q. Why do some people receive communion on the tongue?
A. To avoid profaning the Body and Blood of Jesus. At the present time, Catholics may receive in the hand or on the tongue. It’s always helpful to remember that Communion on the tongue is the universal law and immemorial custom of the Church; Communion in [...]

What I Don’t Get About the Catholic Church

What i don’t understand is how you guys can ignore how evil the church has been in the past.
BFHU: Catholics have done evil and so have Protestants. Just like it is not the Protestant Christian faith that condones evil, so it is not the Catholic Faith that condones evil. The recent sex scandal of [...]

Scripture vs. the Catholic Church: Prohibition of Drinking Blood

Constantine:
SCRIPTURE
“It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: 29You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from BLOOD, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.” Acts 15:28-29
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Your are to [...]

Miracle of Yom Kippur/Miracle of Eucharist

Several years ago I read Roy Schoeman’s book Salvation is from the Jews. He tells the story of his conversion to the Catholic Faith. He was formerly a devout Jew. I was struck with his story about the Jewish Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur. I had never heard of this before and I was skeptical. So [...]

Chief Justice of the Church’s Supreme Court: Archbishop Burke on Pro Abortion Politicians

Transcript of Archbishop Burke’s Interview with Randall Terry on Canon Law 915
Canon Law 915:
Those upon whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared, and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to holy communion.
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Archbishop Burke, Prefect, Apostolic Signatura
March 25, 2009 – Washington, DC – Following [...]

Open Communion Debate

Phillip: I have heard of priests who do not take the narrow minded view you espouse, regarding their Protestant neighbours as true followers of Jesus Christ – of priests being able to see Christ’s truth in these congregations of the faithful.
BFHU: I would hope that all priests regard their Protestant brothers as true followers of [...]

The Catechism Allows for Protestants to Receive Eucharist

Phillip: paragraph 1401 Catechism of the Catholic Church permits communion to Christians not of the Roman Catholic church who are in case of grave necessity.

BFHU: Let us also take a look at the paragraph above the one you cite.
CCC 1400 Ecclesial communities derived from the Reformation and separated from the Catholic Church, “have not preserved [...]

Are You Hostile to Christian Unity?

Phillip: It seems from all you say that either you are openly hostile to Christian Unity
( the prayer of Christ on the night He was betrayed)
BFHU: I am not hostile to unity. I very much would rejoice in the unity of all of
Christianity. What a witness to the world that would be. The disunity presents [...]

Why Don’t Catholics Have an “Open Table” Communion?

I am a Presbyterian, and from my church background we have what we call the “Open Table”… We therefore invite members of any branch thereof to join with us in this Holy meal”
It is from that teaching that I divine that this is the Lords Table not the Table of Presbyterians, or Methodists, Anglicans or [...]