To aid us in our repentance, the Church provides us with the Act of Contrition. It is a pivotal and central prayer in the Church’s spiritual treasury. The prayer is known to many believers as a ...

Do we have the courage to make a public act of contrition? To address our victims in plain, human words? We are sorry. We will stop. We will make amends. If we summon that courage, we will become ...

Amen.” Those words concluding the “Act of Contrition” prayer were recited for centuries by Catholics as they were absolved of their sins in the sacrament of confession. You had to admit you ...

The dicastery also approved another option for the penitent’s Act of Contrition, in addition to the 10 prayers already approved by the Holy See. The text of this newly approved prayer will be ...

The pope’s text, which he did not read but was distributed to participants, focused on the Act of Contrition, the prayer that penitents recite during the sacrament of reconciliation. The ...

O my God, I am heartly sorry for having offended you, and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell; but most of all because they offend you, my God, who are ...