During the Lenten season, the Catholic Church echoes the call of the Lord Jesus for us to accompany him in the desert. The desert is an uncomfortable place. It strips us of our excesses. It humbles us ...

… harder than the act of making a confession is the examination of conscience that precedes it. It’s all that introspection and recalling of sins. I suppose a good examination of conscience is what ...

Reports of sexual abuse at the hands of priests and other members of the Catholic church have been going around for a couple of decades now. But you may not known how widespread the problem really was ...

Pope Francis chose to let his 10th anniversary pass with no great ceremony and little public comment. Yet subsequently he seemed to be reflecting on his decade in the See of Peter and lamenting that ...

There is an old saying among priests—or a saying among old priests, I cannot remember which—that hearing a grandmother’s confession means listening to what everyone else has done wrong, how they have ...

MANILA, Philippines — Reiterating that a “moral crisis” is the bigger problem worldwide, Kalookan Bishop Pablo Virgilio Cardinal David yesterday said the Holy Week is a perfect time to have an ...

Granted, personal “confession” has been in decline. There are no lines in front of confessionals on Saturday afternoons like there were in the days of my youth. So, someone is trying to revive ...

Find today’s readings here. We live in a strange era when self-reflection is discouraged, when people can speak with a straight face of things like “toxic empathy.” The worst kinds of things can be ...