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As Lent continues, a first-of-its-kind national study finds that most Catholics would consider going to Confession

Do you ever go to confession in a Catholic Church? Most Catholics in the United States who go to Mass at least occasionally ...
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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 ...
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From public confession to private penance: How Catholic confession has evolved over centuries

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 ...
Catholic Star Herald

Floss, rinse, confess: Let Reconciliation ‘motivate us to do better’

So, when we leave the confessional, with a clean fresh smile and two fingers unbound, we can hold those fingers up high to ...
Daily Herald

Catholics are invited to confession during Be Reconciled Day March 25

The Diocese of Rockford is again setting aside a day specifically for confession so Catholics can prepare their souls for the ...
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First Holy Confession: Why are we still putting our children through this guilt grind?

IN AN INTERVIEW with a Jesuit magazine in 2013, Pope Francis declared, “The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.” This is not how ...
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Catholics return to confession focused on grace, not a get-out-of-hell-free card

FILE - A man at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in downtown Pittsburgh enters a confessional after a noon-time mass Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1999. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) FILE - A man at St. Mary's ...