God the Father, knowing his children will still be prone to reject him, also sent the Son to give us the Holy Spirit through the sacrament of reconciliation. To give a proper perspective on the ...

The sacrament of reconciliation is a sacrament of healing. The word reconciliation means ‘to be at peace again’. Catholics believe that they must seek to obtain forgiveness in the hope that ...

In the last column, we investigated how the sacrament of reconciliation was prefigured in the Old Testament so as to prepare us for what takes place in the New Testament. God wants us to live in ...

Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the ...

Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the ...

Every other sacrament is linked to the Eucharist. During the service of Mass, prayers are said and Catholics confess their sins. They are given bread by the priest and wine from a shared cup.

While clergy are often mandatory reporters outside of the confessional, long-standing legal precedent in the U.S. recognizes ...

Thomas Rausch, a professor of theology at Loyola Marymount University, told USA TODAY the installation is in no way a substitute for or equivalent to the Catholic sacrament of reconciliation.

The second day of the annual feast at St. Lawrence Basilica, Attur, witnessed a large turnout of devotees who gathered to ...