Communion cup suspended in Sacramento diocese

Communion cup suspended in Sacramento diocese: Other anti-flu measures announced by Bishop Jaime Soto include no handshaking during Sign of Peace, no handholding during the Our Father, encouraging reception of Communion in the hand

Latin now compulsory for kindergartners through eighth graders at Mission Dolores Academy: Students at the San Francisco school come from a combination of English, Spanish, Tagalog and Eritrean primary speaking households among others, and in Latin they find common ground

Young people cannot imagine life as a priest or religious: Survey of 1,178 Catholic high school and college students in San Jose diocese reveals only 1.9 percent of young men would seriously consider priesthood and 0.9 percent of young women would seriously consider religious life