The church is planning to restore Saint Thomas de Villanueva chapel in Havana along with more a dozen more churches, parish houses and other buildings as part of a quiet reconciliation between the ...

In her 15 years leading reconciliation workshops across Canada, Lisa Raven has witnessed powerful scenes involving nuns. There was that time when an Indigenous man asked a sister dressed in full ...

To protect the sacrament of reconciliation as a "channel of grace" for victims of sexual abuse, the Catholic Church must do a better job instructing priests on what to do if a victim recounts his or ...

Do you peruse church bulletins online to find convenient-for-you confession times? Do you have a “game plan” for making it to the confessional ahead of a popular Mass time? Mary Farrow is one of the ...

Pope Francis accepts a report from the Rev. Edgardo A. Colón-Emeric, dean of Duke University Divinity School in Durham, N.C., and the new Methodist co-chair of the Joint International Commission for ...

While clergy are often mandatory reporters outside of the confessional, long-standing legal precedent in the U.S. recognizes the religious freedom of confessors and penitents to be exempt from those ...

Is it possible to reestablish a relationship that has been fractured by wrongdoing? The answer to this question might depend on who the involved parties are, the nature of their relationship, the ...

When I attended seminary, one day I decided to debate a professor in class. As a much more seasoned intellectual, he destroyed my argument! Afterward, he showed me some mercy by offering this bit of ...

A priest and a penitent demonstrate how a confession is conducted at a Catholic church in Salem, Ore., in this May 3, 2019, file photo. Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a leading expert on child protection ...