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Despite the Catholic Church’s requirement that Catholics go to confession at least once a year — with more frequent confession highly encouraged, and required if a Catholic is conscious of mortal sin and wishes to receive Communion — Catholics in the U.S. don’t go to confession very often.
Polling from EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research (EWTN is CNA’s parent company) has consistently shown that over half of U.S. Catholics go to confession either less than once a year or not at all.
Yet within this year’s nationally representative EWTN poll results was one rather surprising detail: The number of Catholics who reported going to confession regularly is going up.
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Polling from EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research (EWTN is CNA’s parent company) has consistently shown that over half of U.S. Catholics go to confession either less than once a year or not at all.
Yet within this year’s nationally representative EWTN poll results was one rather surprising detail: The number of Catholics who reported going to confession regularly is going up.
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Catholics coming back to confession, poll suggests
In some corners of the country, the statistics were a welcome sign that the Church’s efforts are working.
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