I took my older children to Confession this afternoon. The lines were long with well over 100 people in attendance, and our wait for the Confessional was way beyond an hour and a half. The kids (ages ...

The text from my mother pops up above all the other notifications: “Uuwi ka ba sa Mahal na Araw? (Are you coming home for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a medieval historian, I study ways that community leaders used Catholic practices and institutions to respond to war and plague ...

The 40 days of this year's Lenten season started this past week, on Ash Wednesday, as faithful Christians all over the world began the spiritual commemoration of the 40 days that Jesus spent in the ...

Filipino Catholic devotees walk barefoot and flagellate themselves in Manila on April 2, 2026 as an expression of penance ...

We are watching as penitential practices morph into politics. In the past several years, veganism and vegetarianism have become a political religion. God warned Hosea (Hosea 6:6), “For I desire ...

On Sept. 14, Bishop Barry Knestout of Richmond, Va., celebrated a Mass of atonement in reparation for the sexual abuse and its cover-up by Catholic priests and prelates. In his homily, the bishop ...

The 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film “I Confess,” based on an earlier play, features a priest suspected of murder. He’s innocent, and has even heard the murderer’s confession – but cannot clear his own name ...

Before some podcasts made them newly popular, I spent a year reading through the Bible and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. One of the most interesting things that jumped out at me was the ...

For the Church’s first seven centuries, penance could be received no more than once in a lifetime. That policy dated back to the time of St. Peter. The New Testament tells us... - Published on August ...