While clergy are often mandatory reporters outside of the confessional, long-standing legal precedent in the U.S. recognizes ...

The sacrament of reconciliation is a sacrament ... and practice complete humility and fruitful satisfaction. (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1450) Forgiveness of sins brings reconciliation ...

He noted that Catholic Church canon laws 965 and 966 say that only a priest may hear confession. “Confession, or ‘Reconciliation’ as it is usually termed today, is an ecclesial sacrament ...

A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to receive the Body and Blood of the Lord without prior sacramental confession ... Assyrian Church of the East and the Polish National Catholic ...

How does the institution of the Sacrament ... of the Church exercise the power of forgiving sins? A. The priests of the Church exercise the power of forgiving sins by hearing the confession ...