Q. 780. What sins are we bound to confess? A. We are bound to confess all our mortal sins, but it is well also to confess our venial sins. Q. 781. Why is it well to confess also the venial sins we ...

Properly catechized Catholics know that, when we have committed mortal sins, we are obliged to confess them, how many times we committed them, and any circumstances that affect the moral species ...

The Roman Catholic Church urges its faithful to confess their sins to a priest at least once a year, and insists that they do so before receiving Communion if they have committed a mortal sin.

Imagine that Michael, a practicing Catholic, committed a mortal sin yesterday. Normally, Michael would go to confession. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, he can't. It simply isn't available.

The new mortal sins were listed by Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti at the end of a week-long training seminar in Rome for priests, aimed at encouraging a revival of the practice of confession - or the ...

Now granted, all you had to do is go to confession and tell the priest that you committed mortal sins and you were absolved until the next time you sinned. But the problem was, if you confessed ...

as the laity began to challenge church teachings on sin and began to confess, to each other and to legal authorities, the truth of their experiences. [Michael D'Antonio is author of Mortal Sins ...

Those who cohabit, stressed Sheehan, are "objectively living in a state of mortal sin and may not receive ... Lent — to draw Catholics back to confession or, as it is now known, the Sacrament ...

So do lesser versions of the mortal sins; for example, mild overeating would be a venial sin whereas gluttony is deadly. With both types, you can wipe the slate clean with confession and ...