When it is working at full capacity, the altar bread department at St. Cecilia's Abbey produces millions of hosts a year, bringing revenue to the community of Benedictine nuns on the Isle of Wight, an ...

Nuns at a convent in Ellisville make communion wafers for churches in the St. Louis area and beyond. Sister Maria Fatima measures water to mix with the flour for the altar bread on Tuesday, March 20, ...

Sister Anne Bartol, a Poor Clare, prepares altar breads at the Monastery of St. Clare in Langhorne, Pa., in this undated photo. The nuns make up to three million altar breads at their bakery each year ...

LANGHORNE, Pa. >> A group of cloistered nuns has been working overtime in the kitchen to help Philadelphia church officials prepare for Pope Francis’ visit, baking 100,000 communion hosts for his ...

GREENVILLE, R.I. – Manufacturers of altar bread are preparing to face rising costs of wheat flour as grain prices fluctuate in the wake of a severe drought that continues to plague the Midwest and ...

This is an illustration for the Catholic News Service podcast “Communion.” The podcast series launched Oct. 5, 2021. (Credit: CNS illustration/Tyler Orsburn/CNS photo/Chaz Muth.) Listen LANGHORNE, ...

Venezuelans were angry when the country ran low on flour and detergent. They were downright pissed when a chronic toilet paper shortage led to a run on Charmin earlier this month. But the latest ...

CLYDE, Mo. -- Hidden in the quiet countryside of Clyde, Mo., is a thriving industry. Without a storefront and a fancy marketing campaign, the altar bread produced by the Benedictine Sisters of ...

A former Chalan Pago altar boy filed a lawsuit Thursday, alleging Father Andrew Mannetta raped him in the priest's bathroom as punishment for eating the altar bread around 1984 or 1985. More: 272 Guam ...

Manufacturers of altar bread are preparing to face rising costs of wheat flour as grain prices fluctuate in the wake of a severe drought that continues to plague the Midwest and Western Canada, ...