Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a medieval historian, I study ways that community leaders used Catholic practices and institutions to respond to war and plague ...

You could hardly find a better description of what is going on in the sacrament of Reconciliation than this passage from 1 Corinthians 5:17-21: Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation ...

VATICAN CITY — If you go to the Sacrament of Penance in 2023, there will be two subtle changes in the wording of the prayer of absolution, which the priest prays to conclude the sacrament. The new ...

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The new text was adopted by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during its Spring 2021 meeting, with the Vatican's Dicastery (then-Congregation) for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the ...

Contrition is not a word heard often these days outside of Roman Catholicism. (Some conservative Catholics think it isn't heard often inside either.) Its Latin root is contritio, which means "a ...

March 25, 2022 Annunciation will be remembered as the day Pope Francis led the whole world to consecrate Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The consecration was preceded by what the ...