Confession app blessed by Catholic bishop

An iPhone and iPad app that helps Roman Catholics seek forgiveness for their sins has been sanctioned by the Catholic Church. Confession: A Roman Catholic App, developed by Little iApps in South Bend, ...
U.S. News & World Report

Catholics Return to Confession Focused on Grace, Not a Get-Out-Of-Hell-Free Card

Catholics Return to Confession Focused on Grace, Not a Get-Out-Of-Hell-Free Card The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday, and some Catholic priests are happily bracing for ...
The Boston Pilot

Am I obligated to do my penance right away for my confession to be valid?

Q: Recently I went to confession on Saturday afternoon before my parish's vigil Mass. The priest told me to say a rosary for ...
The Durango Herald

Why ending the secrecy of ‘confession’ is so controversial for the Catholic Church

After the sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, there is a worldwide push to end the guarantee of secrecy of confession – called “the seal of the confessional.” On Sept. 11, 2019, two ...
National Catholic Reporter

Now is the time to modify the Catholic Church's 'seal of confession'

How many children have been sexually abused, over time and throughout the world, by serial predators because priests, to whom these culprit priests, parents, teachers or other persons sacramentally ...
Time

Roman Catholic Priests Will Not Break Confession to Report Child Abuse, U.K. Inquiry Told

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, leaves after giving evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in London on Dec. 13, 2018. The Roman Catholic Church says ...