VATICAN CITY—“The Church draws her life from the Eucharist,” opens Pope John Paul II's latest encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church of the Eucharist), released Holy Thursday, April ...

When it was built in 1846, the Church of the Holy Communion, an Episcopal church on Sixth Avenue and 20th Street, was on the outskirts of the city. But by the 1990s, it would be at the heart of ...