After the purificator and paten are placed on top of the chalice, the communion wafer is placed on the paten, which is then covered with a square white pall to protect the wafer.

LONDON, England (CNN)-- The archbishops of Canterbury and York are recommending that churches stop sharing the chalice at communion over swine flu fears, the Church of England said Thursday.

They rank among the best-recognized practices at Catholic Mass: sipping wine from a chalice, shaking hands while exchanging the "sign of peace," and, in many parishes, holding hands during the ...

If Oralie Enos, 75, hears a lot of coughing and sniffling, she will pass on the wine and receive only the wafer, a practice the Catholic Church believes completes the rite. “It’s not something ...

Bishop Robert J. Baker has instructed churches to stop using the communal chalice because of fears of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Baker also instructed that during the part of the Mass ...

The chalice, however, remains on the altar. The practice is unusual for St. Michael's, where both sacraments, the wafer and the wine, are usually offered to everyone.

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles issued a memo to its clergy saying that it won’t issue any mandatory restrictions, but encouraged “vigilance and discretion.” ...

A silver chalice and wafer holder thought to have been stolen from a church have been found in Oxfordshire. PC Jonathan Shaw found the silverware buried behind a barn between Newington and Drayton ...