Pope Francis addresses members of the Apostolic Penitentiary on March 8, 2024, in the Clementine Hall in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media
Rome Newsroom, Mar 8, 2024 / 15:05 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis in an address on Fri… […]
Pope Francis presides over a penitential service at St. Pius V Parish in Rome on March 8, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA
Rome, Italy, Mar 8, 2024 / 14:35 pm (CNA).
On Friday evening Pope Francis traveled out of the Vatican to hear confession… […]
Cardinal Mauro Piacenza. / Credit: PersiGianluigi (public domain)
Rome Newsroom, Oct 31, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).
Peacemaking begins in our own hearts by reconciling with ourselves and God through the sacrament of confession, a Vatican cardinal s… […]
Francisco Velarde, a 21-year-old Spaniard, was one of the young people who had the privilege of going to confession with Pope Francis on Friday, Aug. 4, at World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal. / Credit: ACI Prensa/YouTube
ACI Prensa Staff, Aug … […]
Pope Francis hears the confession of a young pilgrim at World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 4, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media
St. Louis, Mo., Aug 4, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).
As part of the Word Youth Day celebrations this week in Lisbon, Por… […]
On May 20th, the Church commemorates St. Bernardine (or Bernardino) of Siena (1380-1444), a famous Franciscan priest who preached all over Italy. On Bernardine’s feast day, Catholics typically focus on one of his favorite preaching […]
Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit. CNA file photo. / null
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 26, 2022 / 11:00 am (CNA).
The archbishop of Detroit is calling on Michigan Catholics to spend the first two weeks of Advent doing penance following … […]
Sacraments of Healing The Catechism’s introduction to the “sacraments of healing” is so good that the best service to be provided here is simply to cite it verbatim: Through the sacraments of Christian initiation, man […]
Vatican City, Feb 22, 2021 / 05:30 am (CNA).- The penance called for in the Christian life, and accentuated during Lent, can help us make sense of the sacrifices we have been called on to make during the coronavirus pandemic, a Vatican cardinal has sai… […]
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