Encounter with Mercy

"How can one not recognize in our age... confession must be rediscovered and proposed anew?"

Pope Benedict XVI

Address to confessors, February 19, 2007

"Through the surpassing power of Christs's grace, entrusted to frail human ministers, the Church is constantly reborn and each of us is given the hope of a new beginning... To a great extent, the renewal of the Church in America and throughout the world depends on the renewal of the practice of Penance and the growth in holiness which that sacrament both inspires and accomplishes."

Pope Benedict XVI

Washington, DC, April 17, 2008