CHICAGO — Chicago's Cardinal Francis George is facing a major challenge to his efforts to curb a longstanding practice by some priests of giving penitents general absolution. A group of about 100 ...
The dome of St. Peter’s Basilica is seen through trees in the Vatican Gardens. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen ROME — In places particularly hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic and with severe ...
ROME — Catholic bishops in northeast Italy have said that the risk of illness amid the ongoing pandemic constitutes a “grave necessity” permitting priests to confer the Sacrament of Reconciliation ...
MAUNAWILI, OAHU (Hawaii News Now) - The chapel at St. Stephen's Diocesan Center is a place of peace and serenity. But that peace was interrupted by Saturday's missile alert. A priest was about to ...
An electronic sign reads, "There is no threat" in Oahu, Hawaii, after a false emergency alert that said a ballistic missile was headed for Hawaii Jan. 13. Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva gave general ...
Rituals of purification or moral cleansing are common in many religious traditions. For example, ritual washing before prayer, public worship, (re)inclusion, or other religious activities is present ...
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH. BISHOP DAVID TO BACK -- ZO UBIK -- >> AS THE DAYS AND HOURS HAVE BEEN UNFOLDING, IT IS A CRISIS THAT DEMANDS WE TAKE EVERY PRECAUTION WE CAN TO REALLY PROTECT EACH ...
Offering general absolution to the faithful without having them personally confess their sins first may still be done in places seeing serious or increasing levels of coronavirus infections, a Vatican ...
Offering general absolution to the faithful without having them personally confess their sins first may still be done in places seeing serious or increasing levels of coronavirus infections, a Vatican ...