Topic: Confession

• Bishop asks for hour of Confession every week in Lent

  Posted on 11 January 2012. Tags: Bishop Michael Campbell, Confession, Diocese of Lancaster, Lent, Year of Faith

  Bishop of Lancaster says every church in the diocese will be open for Confession on Wednesday evenings

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• Many Catholics in Britain do not grasp how important and rewarding regular Confession can be

  Posted on 14 December 2011. Tags: Advent, Confession

  Why has the practice dropped off so dramatically here, but not in Italy, say, or Kenya?

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• The Joanna Yeates trial and the Salvation Army chaplain who heard a confession of murder

  Posted on 12 October 2011. Tags: Confession, criminal justice, Joanna Yeates, murder, seal of Confession, St John of Nepomuk, Vincent Tabak

  The details of the case have been distressing: surely the jury can hear these in private?

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• Johann Hari’s apology relies on Catholic expressions of penance

  Posted on 15 September 2011. Tags: Confession, Cristina Odone, Johann Hari, Sacrament of Penance

  Indeed, he could not help but mention the Pope

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• If only more people knew that they could find healing through Confession

  Posted on 22 August 2011. Tags: abortion, Confession, Department of Health, Down’s Syndrome, IVF, John Smeaton, New York Times, Ruth Padawer

  World Youth Day reminded us that the sacrament can open the doors to new life

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• For the sake of a quiet life, some priests will avoid tricky subjects in homilies

  Posted on 06 June 2011. Tags: Confession, Regensburg address, Richard Dawkins

  Even preaching about the necessity of confession caused me trouble

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• Sins are not meant to be a form of public entertainment

  Posted on 24 May 2011. Tags: Confession, Dr William Oddie, Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith, privacy, Ryan Giggs, Sin

  The existence of the seal of the confessional reminds us that these things belong firmly in the internal forum

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• Morning Catholic must-reads: 28/03/11

  Posted on 28 March 2011. Tags: Angelus, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, Bishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Catholic Truth Society, Colosseum, Confession, Courtyard of the Gentiles, Fosse Ardeatine, Fr Timothy Finigan., Glastonbury, holy thorn tree, Libya, Louie Verrecchio, Mother Maria Rita Piccione, Our Lady of Walsingham, Rocco Palmo, Sacrament of Penance, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Way of the Cross, Westminster Cathedral, What If We Just Said Pray?

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• Debate: Six months on, what is the lasting legacy of the Pope’s visit to Britain?

  Posted on 11 March 2011. Tags: Benedict bounce, Confession, Friday Fast, Papal Visit 2010, Pope Benedict XVI, Youth 2000

  Are Catholics still energised and renewed by the trip or has the momentum already been lost?

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• Confession app ‘no substitute’ for the sacrament

  Posted on 10 February 2011. Tags: app, Confession, Confession: A Roman Catholic app, Fr Federico Lombardi, iPhone

  Vatican spokesman says reports of ‘Confession via iPhone’ have been misleading

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