MSN: From public confession to private penance: How Catholic confession has evolved over centuries
From public confession to private penance: How Catholic confession has evolved over centuries
A new poll certainly tells the Catholic Church what it wants to hear: That 67 percent of Catholics who haven't been to confession in the past year are open to returning, with roughly half expressing a ...
Yahoo: Catholics return to confession focused on grace, not a get-out-of-hell-free card
The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday, and some Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines outside the confessional. The faithful across the United States are ...
Religion News Service: From public confession to private penance: How Catholic confession has evolved over centuries
(The Conversation) — The Catholic Church treats information shared during confession as absolutely confidential – but that requirement can create legal dilemmas. (The Conversation) — The 1953 Alfred ...
National Catholic Reporter: Is confession dead? Q&A with a Catholic historian on the state of the sacrament
Is confession dead? Q&A with a Catholic historian on the state of the sacrament
National Catholic Reporter: Over centuries, Catholic confession has evolved from public confession to private penance
Over centuries, Catholic confession has evolved from public confession to private penance
A new poll certainly tells the Catholic Church what it wants to hear: That 67% of Catholics who haven't been to confession in the past year are open to returning, with roughly half expre ...
For generations, American Catholics regularly went to confession, a sacred rite that offers a way to reconcile with God and the Church. But starting in the 1970s, they stopped, and in his new book, ...