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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...