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 ...

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

The priest must and does refuse absolution to a penitent when he thinks the penitent is not rightly disposed for the Sacrament. He sometimes postpones the absolution till the next confession ...

Rev. 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.

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

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 ...

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