Is Catholic guilt real? There's a difference between guilt and shame. Guilt is a feeling of remorse or responsibility for a specific action or behavior that goes against our conscience. Guilt can even be a healthy emotion that leads to repentance and positive change.

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Confession (also known as the Sacrament of Reconciliation) is a sacrament where Catholics receive forgiveness for their sins, and restores them to life in Christ and the Church. Priests have the power to forgive sins as Jesus did in the Scriptures. Through the healing grace of this sacrament, we ...

The Holy Spirit plays a key role in helping us prepare to encounter Jesus in confession. The very first thing we can do as we prepare for confession is to prayerfully start a conversation with Jesus, and ask the Holy Spirit to come and reveal our sins. This isn’t as bad as it sounds. The Holy Spi...

It might feel awkward to tell our sins to a priest. But the priest’s role is to act on behalf of Jesus, who desires more than anything to forgive us and offer us mercy. Priests hear so many confessions that you’ll never surprise or scandalize the priest. Priests are also bound by the sacrament to...