As Margaret “Peggy” Muriel Drinkwater Clink tried on the dress, she asked her daughter what color it was. “It’s white,” said Kim Griffith. “We want you to wear the white Communion dress you never had.

In the Derbes family home there is a wall of honor. Lined up on the bedroom wall are six pictures featuring pretty little girls in a similar pose. They represent three generations of the Derbes family ...

When Charlotte’s Kids first opened in 1980, Communion dress-buying season was chaotic. Families would come in last-minute to shop for the big occasion and have to wait for a dressing room or someone ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Nestled in a remote part of New Dorp on a tree-lined side street lies an innovative business with a uniquely different, retro-style concept. And though the establishment has been ...

PHILADELPHIA — It’s First Holy Communion season. For months, Catholic children across the Philadelphia region have been preparing to receive, for the first time, the Holy Eucharist, traditionally the ...

The short story was published in the Spring 2021 issue of Ploughshares. It was Communion Day when Pastor Short announced before the congregation his engagement to a woman who was not our mother. I ...