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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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sister Joy Ann Wege, a Benedictine Sister of Perpetual Adoration, cuts sheets of altar breads into individual presider hosts in her order's kitchen in Clyde, Mo., in this 2016 photo. (CNS ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 700 area residents gathered at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Denham Springs on Saturday to view the elaborate St. Joseph’s Altar, witness the Feeding of the Saints ritual, and ...

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 ...