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 ...

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

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

Jonathan Rone, who hails from Oakland, Iowa, and Dan Roemer, a Des Moines native who now lives in Florida, both shared intimate moments with Joan Vassos.

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 ...

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 ...

In the artist’s early days, critics derided his work as violent and unappealing, Janet Flanner writes. By the ...

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 ...

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

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a ...

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