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First Holy Communion: Do families deserve 'secular alternatives to religious ceremonies'?

With First Holy Communion season now at an end, debate has turned to whether the tradition will stay mainstream for much longer.

Ilary Blasi, daughter Isabel Totti's first communion: the details of the presenter's look that concern Belen

Isabel Totti, third-born daughter of Ilary Blasi and former Roma captain Francesco Totti, made his First Communion. For the ...
AOL

Heart-stopping moment churchgoers stop 16-year-old boy armed with gun during children’s first communion

Clergymen ducked for cover, and churchgoers scrambled out of their seats after a 16-year-old armed with a gun entered a Louisana church during a first communion service over the weekend. However, ...
National Catholic Reporter

Louisiana first Communion Mass disrupted by gunman

A first Communion Mass at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville, Louisiana, was disrupted May 11 after a teenager attempted to enter the church with a rifle. Parishioners prevented the young ...
Staten Island Advance

First Communion Mass 2024: 44 photos from Notre Dame Academy’s ceremony at St. Peter’s Church

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Students of Notre Dame Academy completed the sacrament of Holy Communion at St. Peter’s Church in St. George Saturday afternoon. The girls donned traditional white dresses with ...
The Times Leader

Gate Of Heaven Church Has First Communion Ceremony

First Communion was recently celebrated at Gate of Heaven Church, Dallas. From left, first row at the 1 1:30 a.m. Mass: Brendan Frederick, Isabelle Maria, Hailey Sobocinski, Sarah Kuderka, Kaitlynne ...

Isabel Totti’s First Communion: Two Parties, Two Worlds

Isabel Totti had her First Communion, and Francesco Totti was there. No escape to the Maldives with Noemi Bocchi, as was initially speculated due to the lack of photos with her father. But ...