Confession

  • June 17, 2024

Worship nights unite adults in community

The bass guitar vibrations shake the walls. Rows of chairs along a center aisle are filled at a...
  • March 23, 2023

Confession is ‘encounter of love’ that fights evil, pope tells priests

In a world where "there is no shortage of hotbeds of hatred and revenge," Pope Francis told priests...
  • March 7, 2023

Pope to open Lenten prayer, penance service at Rome parish

Pope Francis will open a Lenten prayer and penance initiative at a Rome parish March 17 rather than...
  • October 25, 2022

‘Forgive me, father’: Vatican seminar looks at why people avoid confession

Every year, for more than three decades, the Vatican tribunal dealing with matters of conscience has offered a...
  • November 16, 2021

Confession can be place where church fights abuse, Jesuit says

To protect the sacrament of reconciliation as a "channel of grace" for victims of sexual abuse, the Catholic...
  • September 28, 2021

Journalist-turned-priest produces film promoting sacrament of confession

A Catholic priest and former broadcast media journalist has produced a film about the sacrament of penance as...
  • March 11, 2021

Vatican says general absolution still permissible during pandemic

Offering general absolution to the faithful without having them personally confess their sins first may still be done...