The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday and Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines ...
In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen: "Forgive me, father, for I have sinned." This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...
Two people meet at a well, looking for water. One is tasked to return regularly; the other arrives in a moment of need. They ...
During the war, Dr. Frank (“Soul Surgeon”) Buchman and his bright-eyed disciples of Moral Re-Armament concentrated on the U.S. Last spring they bounced back across the Atlantic, to set about “changing ...
In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen: “Forgive me, father, for I have sinned.” This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...
A funny thing happened on the way to last Sunday’s Compassion Forum: the politics of religion gave way to the politics of confession. While Newsweek editor Jon Meacham’s 30-second warning was ...
A federal judge has halted a Washington state law that required Catholic priests to break the seal of confession. The law that was passed in May, and was slated to go into effect on July 27, mandated ...
SAN FRANCISCO — In his new book, CONFESSION OF A CATHOLIC WORKER: OUR CURRENT MOMENT OF CHRISTIAN WITNESS (Ignatius Press), Larry S. Chapp acknowledges the fact that everyone knows there is a “crisis” ...
The best-known Roman Catholic priest in Germany today is Father Johannes Leppich, 40, whom the Communists denounce as the “Black Goebbels,” and conservative Catholics call the “Red Father.” Leppich ...
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