It’s always good to define our terms. In his Modern Catholic Dictionary, Servant of God John Hardon provided a good definition of “Examination of Conscience”: Reflection in God’s presence on one’s ...

The Biblical phrase, “If today you hear his voice,” implies that the divine voice must somehow be accessible in our daily experience, for this verse expresses a conviction central to Hebrew and ...

Pope Francis meets a group of five Kenyan acrobats after their performance as the Black Blues Brothers during the general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Nov. 30, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul ...

In our efforts to respond to the call of prayer, we are greatly assisted by the Church’s spiritual treasury. Within such a vast collection of spiritual wisdom and resources, the Church offers us her ...

Father Dennis Hamm is a Jesuit priest, spiritual director and professor emeritus of theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. An expert on the Ignatian examen and a specialist in the Gospel of ...

My elementary education was in the Roman Catholic system at St Boniface in Ionia. We ran up the American flag every day and sometimes it was my job to do that. Never once was the Roman Catholic flag ...

There is an old saying among priests—or a saying among old priests, I cannot remember which—that hearing a grandmother’s confession means listening to what everyone else has done wrong, how they have ...

Pope Francis chose to let his 10th anniversary pass with no great ceremony and little public comment. Yet subsequently he seemed to be reflecting on his decade in the See of Peter and lamenting that ...

He puts the word “conscience” in quote-marks: The subject then decides, on the basis of his experiences, what he considers tenable in matters of religion, and the subjective “conscience” becomes the ...

Pope Francis Saturday led the presidents of the world's bishops' conferences in a penitential liturgy and examination of conscience on their failures in handling abuse within the Catholic Church. "For ...