A. Confession is the telling of our sins to a duly authorized priest, for the purpose of obtaining forgiveness. Q. 777. Who is a duly authorized priest? A. A duly authorized priest is one sent to ...

Survivors are calling for reparations, and the Belgian parliament has reopened investigations into past Church cover-ups. Originally intended to commemorate the 600th anniversary of Belgium's Catholic ...

The Church teaches that providing nutrition and hydration is morally required only when these benefit the patient and do not ...

As National Suicide Prevention Month draws to a close, a Catholic mental health expert told OSV News that open, ongoing ...

From the viewpoint of Catholic moral teaching the 1916 Rising cannot be regarded as just. At the time churchmen were divided ...

11-12:30 p.m. - Session 2: Entanglements between Secular and Catholic Enlightenments Chair: Mark Valeri (Washington University) Jeffrey Burson (Georgia Southern University), “The Long and Fading ...

As I get older, I notice that a number of my friends are spiritual or religious. With my Catholic school background, I often wonder: why don’t I have those fine traits? Maybe it goes back to 5th grade ...

The six-week series is designed to inform and answer questions non-practicing Catholics may have about the faith since they ...

A new book — not The Da Vinci Code — shows just how much sway the mysterious right-wing Catholic group has — and might have ...

New Orleans’ Catholic archdiocese nonetheless allowed Hecker to work through his retirement ... Attorneys for certain clergy abuse victims had learned of Hecker’s confession even before the Chapter 11 ...

The new play by Omer Abbas Salem, “Happy Days are Here (Again),” which is set at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago in ...

Back in 2003, an analysis of how the attitudes of students at Catholic colleges changed from the time they entered as ...