Throughout the Christian way of life, and especially in Lent, believers are called to examine their consciences and repent of their sins. The deeper the repentance, the greater the conversion of heart ...

“Receive the Holy Spirit,” said the risen Lord to his apostles. “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven. If you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” The sacrament of Penance, ...

Pope Francis leads an audience for priests who hear confessions in the basilicas of Rome and priests and seminarians attending a course on confession offered by the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican ...

But Truth, to him, is a grand ideal. “I believe in the Truth,” he tells me. “I think there is such a thing as Truth.” Dropping back into the lower case, he continues: “I’ve always told the truth. If ...