Becoming a Better Confessor
July 20, 2015
The Thomistic Institute recently sponsored their fourth annual Conference for Priests: “Becoming a Better Confessor: Using the Virtues and Vices in the Confessional.” The conference, cosponsored with the Archdiocese of Baltimore, took place on July 7-9, 2015 in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and at the Basilica of the Assumption. Approximately 160 priests attended from all over the United States and Canada. Photos are available here.
The following Dominican friars and diocesan priests spoke at the conference:
Fr. Romanus Cessario, O.P.: “Charity, Mortal Sin, and Spiritual Life“
Fr. Basil Cole, O.P.: “Chastity, Lust, and Taming the Appetites“
Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.: “Hope, Despair, Sloth, and Presumption“
Fr. Fred Miller, “Humility, Pride, and Vainglory“
Msgr. Charles Pope, “The Beatitudes in the Confessional“
Next year the Thomistic Institute’s annual Conference for Priests will again take place in Baltimore, on Aug. 9-11, 2016.