Catholics from across the Diocese of Rochester are encouraged to participate March 24 in a special Lenten Day of Penance and ...

This is a list of the times that penance will be offered in the parishes located in the Finger Lakes region for the Day of Penance March 24.

The 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film “I Confess,” based on an earlier play, features a priest suspected of murder. He’s innocent, and has even heard the murderer’s confession – but cannot clear his own name ...

On the first Sunday of Lent several years ago, I stood in church next to my brother, a father of four young children, forced to listen to a letter from the local bishop, "to be read at all the Masses.

The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday and Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines ...

Just as a Catholic who takes his faith seriously approaches Lent with an attitude of penance in anticipation of Easter, so too must we remember that Advent should likewise be regarded with a ...

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