A: The short answer is no; you didn’t do anything wrong by receiving holy Communion before completing your penance.

The 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film “I Confess,” based on an earlier play, features a priest suspected of murder. He’s innocent, and has even heard the murderer’s confession – but cannot clear his own name ...

All priests should desire to carry out a holy ministry and to confer the sacraments in a way that leads others to Christ. However, sometimes the mix of personalities in the confessional makes it ...

COLUMBIA — Like it has for just about everything else, the Internet has led to new trends in penance. Web sites such as IveScrewedUp.com, run by a Protestant church in Florida, and DailyConfession.com ...

The term "Jesus phone" has just taken on a whole new meaning. A Catholic bishop in Indiana has, for the first time, given his official imprimatur--or blessing, if you will--to an iPhone/iPad app.

Several families at Charlotte Catholic High School alleged that a priest asked their teenage daughters ‘inappropriate’ ...