Jesus gave the apostles the ability to forgive sins, as well as to teach and celebrate the Eucharist, and they passed it on ...

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A lot of times we walk up to the plate wanting to hit the home run, but God has a different plan. Instead, He sees runners ...

Only 66 percent of American Christians accept the biblical teaching that all have sinned, George Barna said in the latest ...

Q: Does a person's mortal sin prior to becoming Catholic follow him or her until confession and absolution? In particular, if ...

What happens when a foundational principle of the Christian faith quietly slipped from the grasp of tens of millions of ...

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 we ...

The public school teacher often spoke about God when students were being disciplined, the investigation showed.

In separate comments on “The Five” and later on his own show, Watters said protesters must accept a one-time offer to confess ...

The difficulty is that you see both everywhere in the Old and New Testaments, making it the biggest supposed contradiction ...

The Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are coming up. Here's when your Jewish coworkers might take off of work.

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