Flu, pneumonia and viral cold season is upon us. Is sipping from the communion cup a hazard to your health? Certainly, it is risky. One medical doctor colleague who served as a minister of the cup ...

Letters to the editor from all over the globe were received at NCR in response to an opinion piece published Dec. 18 titled "Is sipping from the Communion cup a hazard to your health?" The article was ...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Newark is lifting the 3-year-old pandemic restrictions on drinking Communion from a shared chalice as of April 6. Parishes can then begin offering the traditional "Blood of ...

Church member J.H. Brittain worried about the spread of disease caused by hundreds of parishioners drinking from the same Communion cup. The Englishman wrote to the editors of the Lancet, an ...

And the Minister who delivereth the Cup shall say, The Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for thee, preserve thy body and sold unto everlasting life. Drink this in remembrance that ...

I recently went to Mass and received Communion at a church outside my parish, and I noticed that the priest held a large ciborium containing the hosts and a small inner chalice containing the Precious ...