‘Forgive me, father’: Vatican seminar looks at why people avoid confession

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Every year, for more than three decades, the Vatican tribunal dealing with matters of conscience has offered a course to help priests in their “ministry of mercy” as confessors. The huge number of participants, from 500 to 800 ordained and soon-to-be ordained men, who attend the course sponsored by the Apostolic […]

The one thing you should remember before you go to Confession

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Louisa Florentin

Is going to Confession a rollercoaster of emotions for you? Louisa Florentin reflects on this very human reaction and the mercy of Christ coming to meet it.

"As the magnet draws iron": St. Philip Neri’s secret for converting souls

Monday, May 25, 2020

Kristina Glicksman

Of all the saints that have lived and died in the city of Rome, only St. Philip Neri is called the "Apostle of Rome". What makes him so special?

A Way To Pray – Fr. Rob Galea

Friday, September 30, 2016

Salt + Light Media

Fr. Rob Galea gives a few suggestions on how to pray. A.C.T.S.S.S.S Adoration Confessions Thanksgiving Supplication Scripture Silence Surrender Follow Fr. Rob Galea! www.FrRobGalea.com Social Media: @FrRobGalea

Angels: Your Forgotten Friends

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Noel Ocol

Welcome to S+L’s Weekly News Round-Up. As the Director of Marketing and Communications here at S+L, many interesting Catholic news stories and articles come across my desk on a daily basis. Some of them we’ll cover on our different television programs and others I’d like to share with you on this blog. This blog column […]

Deacon-structing: Reconciliation part 3

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Deacon Pedro

So far, in part 1 and part 2 we’ve looked at sin and why we need the Sacrament of Reconciliation. There are two Sacraments that can be received every day: The Eucharist and Reconciliation. The Church doesn’t say we have to go to Confession all the time but the Catechism of the Catholic Church says […]

Deacon-structing: Reconciliation part 2

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Deacon Pedro

Last week, we began looking at sin and the difference between venial and mortal sin. Even though we`ve all been cleansed from Original Sin at Baptism, we are all still wounded by Original Sin. Because of this, we still suffer the effects of Original Sin, which is why we have a tendency to sin. This tendency […]

Deacon-structing: Reconciliation part 1

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Deacon Pedro

The whole week between the Feast of the Epiphany and the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord we heard readings from the First Letter of St. John and on the Saturday I heard something that I had never heard before: “If anyone sees his brother sinning, if the sin is not deadly, he should […]

Photo of the day: Light of the Nations

Friday, August 10, 2012

Cheridan Sanders

The Council itself, in the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, said this: While Christ, ‘holy, innocent and undefiled’ (Heb 7:26) knew nothing of sin (cf. 2 Cor 5:21), but came only to expiate the sins of the people (cf. Heb 2:17)…the Church…clasping sinners to its bosom, at once holy and always in need of purification, follows […]

Tiger in the confessional

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Kris Dmytrenko

The queue recedes quicker than you hoped for, but you’re ready. You clutch a folded list to ensure you don’t forget the painfully exhumed results of a thorough examination of conscience, not that you can very well read it in the dark of the confessional. When your turn comes, you pull back the heavy, velvet […]