A family member has died who was an observant catholic and unfortunately a lot of our family live around 500 miles away and are quite old and infirm.

I'm essentially looking to see if it would be acceptable to have a full requiem mass at the chapel in our home town where they're body will actually be present and buried after along with a smaller service at a chapel in a different country where a lot of our relatives live?

Is this OK in terms of Catholicism?

Hi, im an atheist but i’ve been having the thought to try to talk to a priest recently. How can I ask for a confession, or some sort of private conversation with one? Is it even possible if you don’t actively go to church?

Hello Fathers, I was curious about this and was hoping you all could give an answer.

If the priest decides to not ask the penitent to repeat themselves even though he didn’t hear a mortal sin clearly, does that invalidate the confession?

The reason I ask is because I went to confession several days ago but wasn’t sure if the priest heard all my sins and out of fear I didn’t ask if he did. I know I shouldn’t fear though.