What do leftist, mostly secular elites share with medieval sinners? They feel bad that the way they live sometimes doesn’t quite match their professed dogma. Many in the medieval church were … ...

A. The word Penance has other meanings. It means also those punishments we inflict upon ourselves as a means of atoning for our past sins; it means likewise that disposition of the heart in which ...

Some of the 270 members of a group that began only eight months ago say celebrating their Catholic faith in person is better ...

During the first centuries of the Middle Ages, public penance fell into disuse, and emphasis was increasingly placed on verbally confessing sins to an individual priest.

During the early centuries of the Middle Ages, public penance fell into disuse, and emphasis was increasingly placed on verbally confessing sins to an individual priest.

Penance, the Jesuits said, “is any human pain observed or experienced as a sign that one remembers and wishes to participate in the sufferings that our Lord, Jesus Christ, went through for the ...

I personally would rather see coverage focused on our many current problems and what I see as journalistic sins of omission versus the sins of our fathers. Courtney Wilton, Portland ...

Medieval developments. During the first centuries of the Middle Ages, public penance fell into disuse, and emphasis was increasingly placed on verbally confessing sins to an individual priest.

Other developments took place in the later Middle Ages. Based on the work of the theologian Peter Lombard, penance was declared a sacrament, one of the major rites of the Catholic Church.In 1215 ...