How Long for Confession?
I went to a communal penitential service in Advent, thinking that six priests would get through the confessions faster than...
Sacraments
We Need to Be Able to Explain the Eucharist
John Lee, Johannesburg – Do we Catholics realise how neccessary it is for us to explain to fundamentalists and other...
Fight that Sinking Feeling with Faith
By Julia Beacroft – My younger son is something of a maverick. He has always been mischievous, unpredictable and a...
When is the Real Presence Gone?
News of earthquakes prompted my class to ask this question: If a church is destroyed by a quake and the...
Swiss Bishop to Priests: No last rites for patients seeking assisted suicide
A Swiss bishop has instructed Catholic priests not to give last rites to people suspected of seeking assisted suicide, following...
Four Cardinals ask Pope to Clarify Teaching on Communion for Remarried
Four cardinals said they formally asked Pope Francis to clarify his teaching on Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried...
Vatican Cardinal Explains Limits of Eucharistic Sharing
The Catholic Church continues to insist that sharing the sacrament of Communion will be a sign that Christian churches have...
A Season of First Communions
We are in the middle of First Holy Communion season. Although there is no fixed liturgical feast for this, many...
Can a Priest Refuse to Give Absolution?
A fellow Catholic I know went to confession. The priest apparently declined to give absolution. I was not told why....
