
‘I Am Heartily Sorry’: 2 Holy Habits to Prepare Children for First (and Regular) Reconciliation
SACRAMENTAL LIVING: RECONCILIATION
SACRAMENTAL LIVING: RECONCILIATION
COMMENTARY: As the hymn ‘There Is a Balm in Gilead’ reminds us, we are in need of not only acceptance, but healing.
The new language for the priest’s absolution is allowed as of Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. Priests must use the new language starting on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 16, the first Sunday after Easter 2023.
In recent weeks, Cardinal Robert McElroy has argued that the Church’s pastoral practice needs to be reformed to be less ‘exclusionary’; Father Thomas Berg, a moral theologian at St. Joseph Seminary, says the Church is already well-equipped to provide pastoral accompaniment to those struggling with sexual sin.
Recovering addict Dann Aungst helps people overcome sex addiction and live chastely.
The Sacrament of Penance, also called reconciliation or confession, is the means through which God grants pardon for sins.
The Holy Father addressed about 800 priests and seminarians March 25 at the end of an annual course on the seal of confession and the internal forum.
Sister Miriam Heidland discusses her new book, which presents the penitential disciplines as powerful tools for healing relationships with God, with others, and with ourselves.
The gradual return to “normalcy” will be an opportunity to correct problems and abuses that have crept into the Church over the last 50 years.
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