Gloria Purvis: You are not alone in your bad experience in confession, and you can do something to heal from that trial.

The view that the Eucharist is a symbol of Jesus has alarmed many U.S. bishops because belief in the real presence of Christ in the consecrated host is a central church teaching.

First: You are not required to talk about sex in the confessional.

Whatever a person’s experiences and fears of confession have been, going to confession behind a partition has a tremendous amount to offer us.

If the baby was born alive and they waited for the priest to make it over to the hospital, they ran the risk that the baby might die before the priest arrived to perform the sacrament of baptism.

Perhaps when we ask if women can be ordained, we are asking the wrong question.