“Uh, Father? You forgot to give me a penance.” I was sitting in my pastor’s study, a much younger man than I am today, my cheeks tear-streaked and my shame revealed. I had not planned on confession ...

So, tell me — have you confessed your sins to God today? If you have, why did you do that if you’ve already been forgiven for those sins when Christ died for you on the cross? With that, I’d like to ...

I am told that it’s my Christian duty to forgive, and the Lord knows I’ve tried. But each time I forgive him... - Published on August 15, 2025 He said I am sorry, but it’s at least the tenth time! I ...

In one of several audiences today, Pope Benedict XVI addressed members of the Apostolic Penitentiary on the state of Confession and lamented that today the world “is losing the notion of sin”. The ...

Forgiveness was something I first encountered in the dark silence of a Catholic confessional as a child. I still remember the heavy wooden booth, the tiny grate that slid open with a reverberating ...

The coronavirus pandemic has altered routines in countless ways, and religion is no exception. Father Daniel O’Mullane used to administer the sacrament of Penance, commonly referred to as confession, ...

In Hamlet, the gloomy Dane lives out a thoroughly pagan vendetta against his uncle Claudius, who has murdered his father. At one point, he discovers Claudius at his prayers and thinks to go and stab ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — You know how they say God is everywhere? Well now, Father Patrick Baikauskas is everywhere. Fr. Patrick, Pastor and Director of Campus Ministry at St. Thomas Aquinas, is ...

This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. The installation was a two-month project in religion, technology and art titled "Deus in Machina ...

Father Jiha Lim listens to a penitent’s confession March 7, 2021, at St. Aloysius Church in Great Neck, N.Y. (Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS.) Listen ROME — Every year, for more than three decades, ...

Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, and Bill Murray appear in a scene from the movie "Get Low." (photo: Photograph courtesy of Sony Pictures.) Tim Drake Blogs March 17, 2011 Every once in a while a wonderful ...