During Confession You can begin your confession by making the Sign of the Cross and greeting the priest: "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned." The priest gives you a blessing.

One example is Father Mateo Correa Magallanes, a Catholic priest in Mexico during the early decades of the 20th century. In the 1920s, the Mexican government engaged in a wholesale persecution of ...

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The Church’s teaching on confession is briefly presented in paragraph 1422 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which collects the teachings in Vatican II’s [constitution] Lumen gentium ...

For the First Commandment, for example, the app asks, ... Confession: A Roman Catholic App is available for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch for $1.99 on iTunes.

For generations, American Catholics regularly went to confession, a sacred rite that offers a way to reconcile with God and the Church. But starting in the 1970s, they stopped, and in his new book, ...

He told the Catholic Review that many Catholics feel peace and relief after going to confession, especially if they have been away from the sacrament for a long time. “Inevitably, people say ...