May celebrates First Confessions and First Communions. I remember mine in 1962 when I was 7-years-old. Ah, memories of dress rehearsals and the sins of omission. We second-graders first had to learn ...

My Catholic first Communion was circa 1962. I was 7-years-old, but my first confession was the stepping stone, which brings back dress rehearsals and the sins of omission. We second-graders had to ...

“When I don’t pray, I don’t really feel like being good,” our almost six-year-old son Andre explained. His older sister Zelie agreed. It is hard to be good. “Why is it so easy to be bad and so hard to ...

May celebrates First Confessions and First Communions. I remember mine in 1962 when I was 7 years old. Ah, memories of dress rehearsals and the sins of omission. We second-graders first had to learn ...

The Roman Catholic Church urges its faithful to confess their sins to a priest at least once a year, and insists that they do so before receiving Communion if they have committed a mortal sin. In ...

IN AN INTERVIEW with a Jesuit magazine in 2013, Pope Francis declared, “The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.” This is not how ...