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 ...

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 ...

On the first Sunday of Lent several years ago, I stood in church next to my brother, a father of four young children, forced to listen to a letter from the local bishop, "to be read at all the Masses.

COLOGNE, GermanyCOLOGNE, Germany — Germany’s Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cologne held a service of penance Thursday for cases of sexual abuse by clergy, saying the ritual was not an absolution for ...

Just as a Catholic who takes his faith seriously approaches Lent with an attitude of penance in anticipation of Easter, so too must we remember that Advent should likewise be regarded with a ...

Catholics from across the Diocese of Rochester are encouraged to participate March 24 in a special Lenten Day of Penance and Mercy to experience the healing power of the sacrament of reconciliation.

The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cologne in Germany held a service of penance Thursday meant to be a "confession of guilt" for sex abuse cases within the German Catholic Church, the Associated Press ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Germany’s Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cologne held a service of penance Thursday for cases of sexual abuse by clergy, saying the ritual was not an absolution for the ...