National Catholic Register

Monthly Web Picks

This month I would like to concentrate on the sacrament of penance and reconciliation on the Web. The Register has an excellent guide to confession and examinations of conscience for adults and ...
Crux

As Lent continues, a first-of-its-kind national study finds that most Catholics would consider going to Confession

Do you ever go to confession in a Catholic Church? Most Catholics in the United States who go to Mass at least occasionally say they haven’t been to the confessional in over a year, but a new study ...
National Catholic Register

Study Finds Nearly 70% of Catholics Who Have Not Gone to Confession in the Past Year Want to Go

This Lent, a new study finds that two-thirds of Catholics who have not attended confession in the last year say they are open to going. According to “The Catholic Pulse Report: The Confession Study,” ...
Catholic Standard

New survey may show potential for a confession revival

A new poll certainly tells the Catholic Church what it wants to hear: That 67 percent of Catholics who haven't been to ...
The Conversation

From public confession to private penance: How Catholic confession has evolved over centuries

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 ...