This year the National Day of Prayer will take place on Thursday, May 4. America suffers from increasing social crises that have physical and psychological aspects and which appear resistant to ...

“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 ...

“I firmly resolve with the help of thy grace to confess my sins, do penance and amend my life. Amen.” Those words concluding the “Act of Contrition” prayer were recited for centuries by Catholics as ...

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 ...

Amritsar: After 176 years, an ardas in contrition — for the killing of Baba Bir Singh Naurangabad and other Sikh generals by the Sikh soldiers of Dogra empire — was offered at Akal Takht. Following ...

Perhaps in catastrophe lies the invitation to return to contrition — and in contrition, to seek mercy and hope for the sort of life that can come from the ashes. (Rohan Thomson / Getty Images) In the ...