Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen, "Forgive me, ...

This week’s Register tells the story of the many bishops who are finding innovative ways to promote confession. Here are seven ways laypeople can follow their example and promote confession ourselves ...

I have a confession to make: I have not been to confession yet this Advent. Every year, I bug people to go sometime during the season, and I think most of my family has been. But I have not yet gone ...

Gold crosses and statues adorn confessional rooms at St. Michael Archangel Catholic Church in Houston, on April 13, 2019. (Credit: Wong Maye-E/AP.) Listen The Lenten period for penance started this ...

When I was a boy, almost nothing I said in confession altered the response of Father Kelly, our Irish pastor. “Say three Hail Marys and renew your confidence in God and in yourself.” Once he did add ...

In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels, and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen: "Forgive me father, for I have sinned." This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...

Archbishop Michael Jackels recently weighed in on the subject of denying Communion to public sinners. Jackels, the archbishop of Dubuque, wrote that the desire to “repair the scandal of pro-choice ...

(CNN) - Pope Leo XIV has suggested that Christian leaders who are responsible for wars should go to confession, without naming any conflict or individual specifically. “Do those Christians who bear ...

In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen, "Forgive me, father, for I have sinned." This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...

In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen: “Forgive me, father, for I have sinned.” This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...