Tag: reconciliation

YAOUNDE, Cameroon -- As the dust begins to settle following the April 15-18 visit of Pope Leo XIV to Cameroon, Church leaders in the...

A new poll certainly tells the Catholic Church what it wants to hear: That 67% of Catholics who haven't been to confession in the...

You are likely reading this column either just ahead of Ash Wednesday or a few days into Lent. In my adult lifetime, I don't...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Leo XIV has asked Catholics to join him in praying for Christians living in areas of war or conflict,...

By Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski, OSV News The season of Lent prepares us to renew our baptismal promises, which we will do on Easter Sunday....

Looking around at the evil and suffering we encounter on our screens, in our communities, in our families and even staring back at us...

By Dr. Greg Popcak, For OSV News Lent is a time of reparation — a season of sorrow for sins committed and expressions of a...

Q: A Protestant minister (formerly a Catholic) said that the church's authority to grant absolution in confession expired upon Christ's death. What authority does...

A young relative is making his first Holy Communion this year. But "First Reconciliation" came before that. There were too many kids in his class...

“Because of my many sins…” If you know the phrase you probably heard it tagged on to the end of a sentence, muttered gently but...