Catholics Who Don’t Receive Communion Shouldn’t be Shamed
By Chaz Muth – When Diane Davis was preparing for her First Communion in the 1970s, she asked her mother why she didn’t go up to the...
Category: Confession
Repentance on death row?
Dale Recinella, a Catholic prison chaplain, explains how a death sentence distracts an inmate from getting right with God.
When Are Our Sins Forgiven?
Question: I cannot answer Catholics and others when they tell me they are forgiven for sin when they ask Jesus directly, for example, in the Lord’s Prayer....
A Brief History of Confession in the Church
By Father Kenneth Doyle Question: When I was a Protestant, I never went to confession, and no such practice existed in any of the churches to which...
Confession Once a Year?
By Father Kenneth Doyle – Question: In one of your recent columns, you stated: “Strictly speaking, one is obliged to go to the sacrament of penance only...
Pope to Confessors: Be People Who Offer Consolation and Mercy
By Carol Glatz – Every confessor should understand he is a sinner, forgiven by God, and he is there to offer his brothers and sisters — sinners, too...
Vatican: General Absolution Still Permissible During Pandemic
By Carol Glatz – Offering general absolution to the faithful without having them personally confess their sins first may still be done in places seeing serious or...
Pray with the Pope: March 2021
General Intention: Let us pray that we may experience the sacrament of reconciliation with renewed depth, to taste the infinite mercy of God. Taste God’s infinite mercy...
Beginning again: An examination of conscience
By Fr John Allen Green OFM Beginning again… Finding Forgiveness during Darkness – An examination of conscience John 1:1-18 An examination of conscience begins by an admission...
What to Say in Confession
By Father Kenneth Doyle Question: I have not been to confession in at least 10 years. I want to go, but I have no idea what to...
Drive-through Confessions Don’t Stop for Snow
Warmed by a fire, Father Philip Bochanski offers confession just inside the garage at the rectory of St Catherine of Siena Church in Trumbull, Connecticut, where the...
Cardinal Upholds ‘Probable Invalidity’ Of Confession By Phone
By Carol Glatz – Even though the world is facing a pandemic that may limit many people’s ability to celebrate the sacraments, particularly those people who are...
