This year the National Day of Prayer will take place on Thursday, May 4. America suffers from increasing social crises that have physical and psychological aspects and which appear resistant to ...

Pope Francis leads an audience for priests who hear confessions in the basilicas of Rome and priests and seminarians attending a course on confession offered by the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican ...

“I firmly resolve with the help of thy grace to confess my sins, do penance and amend my life. Amen.” Those words concluding the “Act of Contrition” prayer were recited for centuries by Catholics as ...

Pope Francis in an address on Friday morning stressed the importance of confession during the season of Lent, underscoring that the richness of the sacrament is seen in the Act of Contrition, a ...

(RNS) — Many people give up on religion when what they really need to do is change their image of God and how they relate to him. Too many people, when they grow older, give up on the God they learned ...