Lent is supposed to be a time of penance in the Catholic Church. This year, it’s a time when priests in the confessional will use a revised translation of the sacrament of penance and reconciliation ...

If you go to the Sacrament of Penance in 2023, there will be two subtle changes in the wording of the prayer of absolution, which the priest prays to conclude the sacrament. The new prayer will likely ...

Prayer abases intellect and pride, crucifies vainglory, and signs our spiritual bankruptcy, and all these are hard for flesh and blood to bear. E. M. Bounds1 Possibly, much of the flimsy piety of the ...

The sight of King Charles praying with Pope Leo at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel signalled the latest step in a historic ...

AMID the string of natural and man-made calamities affecting the country, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines ...

The new language for the priest’s absolution is allowed as of Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. Priests must use the new language starting on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 16, the first Sunday after ...