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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A handful of churches in South Carolina are offering parishioners the option to have gluten-free bread during the Holy Communion, but the Vatican says gluten is actually a necessary part of the sacred ...

The sisters in Clyde were already running a school and a print shop when they branched off into altar bread production in 1910. "We were the largest religious producer of altar breads in the U.S.," ...

The unleavened bread that Roman Catholics use in the celebration of Communion must contain some gluten, even if only a trace amount, according to a new Vatican directive. The directive, which was ...

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 ...