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Pope Francis: The heart of repentance is God’s ‘infinite love,’ ‘boundless mercy’

March 8, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis addresses members of the Apostolic Penitentiary on March 8, 2024, in the Clementine Hall in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Mar 8, 2024 / 15:05 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis in an address on Fri… […]

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‘God never tires of forgiving’: Pope Francis hears confessions at Roman parish

March 8, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis presides over a penitential service at St. Pius V Parish in Rome on March 8, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Rome, Italy, Mar 8, 2024 / 14:35 pm (CNA).
On Friday evening Pope Francis traveled out of the Vatican to hear confession… […]

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How to bring peace to the world? Start with sacramental confession, cardinal says

October 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Cardinal Mauro Piacenza. / Credit: PersiGianluigi (public domain)

Rome Newsroom, Oct 31, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).
Peacemaking begins in our own hearts by reconciling with ourselves and God through the sacrament of confession, a Vatican cardinal s… […]

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Young man after confession with the pope: ‘I told him the sins that pain me the most’

August 7, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Francisco Velarde, a 21-year-old Spaniard, was one of the young people who had the privilege of going to confession with Pope Francis on Friday, Aug. 4, at World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal. / Credit: ACI Prensa/YouTube

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug … […]

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Pope Francis hears young people’s confessions in Lisbon

August 4, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis hears the confession of a young pilgrim at World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 4, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media

St. Louis, Mo., Aug 4, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).
As part of the Word Youth Day celebrations this week in Lisbon, Por… […]

The Dispatch

Saint Bernardine of Siena and the original bonfire of the vanities

May 20, 2023 Dawn Beutner 3

On May 20th, the Church commemorates St. Bernardine (or Bernardino) of Siena (1380-1444), a famous Franciscan priest who preached all over Italy. On Bernardine’s feast day, Catholics typically focus on one of his favorite preaching […]

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Detroit bishop calls for penitential Advent after passage of abortion initiative

November 26, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit. CNA file photo. / null

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 26, 2022 / 11:00 am (CNA).
The archbishop of Detroit is calling on Michigan Catholics to spend the first two weeks of Advent doing penance following … […]

Essay

Lent and the Sacraments: Penance and Anointing of the Sick

March 24, 2022 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 12

Sacraments of Healing The Catechism’s introduction to the “sacraments of healing” is so good that the best service to be provided here is simply to cite it verbatim: Through the sacraments of Christian initiation, man […]

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Vatican cardinal reflects on the value of penance in a time of pandemic

February 22, 2021 CNA Daily News 1

Vatican City, Feb 22, 2021 / 05:30 am (CNA).- The penance called for in the Christian life, and accentuated during Lent, can help us make sense of the sacrifices we have been called on to make during the coronavirus pandemic, a Vatican cardinal has sai… […]

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Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, is quite young and very willing to speak directly and frankly, as this recent CNS piece indicates: Western secularism underlies the worldwide economic crisis […]

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