The dicastery also approved another option for the penitent’s Act of Contrition, in addition to the 10 prayers already approved by the Holy See. The text of this newly approved prayer will be ...

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 ...

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its ...

Marie Howe sees her work as an act of confession, conversation, prayer. She says simply, “Poetry is telling something to someone.” According to the distinguished poet Stanley Kunitz, Howe’s “telling” ...

“Prayer,” he said, “is the first and most powerful thing we can do.” If you’re a parent of a schoolchild in 2023, you’ve perhaps gotten some form of the “lockdown” text.

The Holy Father made the remarks as part of a papal message delivered ahead of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. That observance, established by the Pope in 2015 , is held on Sept ...

“Why this one exception? The rite of penance, as the term rite indicates, is a liturgy. It’s an act of worship. It’s prayer for us. The seal of confession is essential to the rite because a penitent ...

A Novendiali, a nine-day period of mourning, remembrance and prayer began with Pope Francis' funeral Mass in Rome on April 26, 2025. Mass will be held each day of mourning.