A priest hearing confession at a Rome church on March 26, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters) Almost 50 years ago, Dr. Karl Menninger raised a concern for both ...
NCR interviews James O'Toole, whose new book, For I Have Sinned, details the growth and eventual decline of confession in the United States, prompting questions about the sacrament's future.
Do you peruse church bulletins online to find convenient-for-you confession times? Do you have a “game plan” for making it to the confessional ahead of a popular Mass time? Mary Farrow is one of the ...
PITTSBURGH — What’s the secret to bringing Catholics back to confession? According to priests with parishes that have strong cultures of confession, how the priest approaches the sacrament of ...
It’s not too late to go to confession before Christmas—and there’s nothing more important you can do
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 ...
Despite the Catholic Church’s requirement that Catholics go to confession at least once a year — with more frequent confession highly encouraged, and required if a Catholic is conscious of mortal sin ...
A Peruvian bishop has rescinded permission for priests of his diocese to hear confessions by telephone, just five days after authorizing them to do so. Bishop Reinhold Nann of the Diocese of Caravell, ...
A confession of judgment has often been viewed as an important tool in settling a litigation or finalizing a transaction. In 2019, the New York State Legislature made some significant amendments to ...
The 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film “I Confess,” based on an earlier play, features a priest suspected of murder. He’s innocent, and has even heard the murderer’s confession – but cannot clear his own name ...
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