The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday and Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines ...

The 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film “I Confess,” based on an earlier play, features a priest suspected of murder. He’s innocent, and has even heard the murderer’s confession – but cannot clear his own name ...

This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. The installation was a two-month project in religion, technology and art titled "Deus in Machina ...

Confession, the Catholic and Orthodox practice of listing one’s sins in the presence of a priest who then offers absolution and is sworn to secrecy under pain of eternal damnation, has long been a ...

In the late '60s, when the Rev. Jan Larson was a new Roman Catholic priest, he would sit in a dark confessional for hours and listen to people rattle off a "grocery list" of sins. They had impure ...

“When was the last time you made a confession?” Pope Francis asked during a general audience last year. “And if much time has passed, do not lose another day. Be courageous, and go to confession!” ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In his new book, CONFESSION OF A CATHOLIC WORKER: OUR CURRENT MOMENT OF CHRISTIAN WITNESS (Ignatius Press), Larry S. Chapp acknowledges the fact that everyone knows there is a “crisis” ...

Roger Ebert is the best known movie critic in America. But lately he’s been branching out a lot, writing personal essays for the Chicago Sun-Times in addition to his weekly film reviews. His latest ...

MARBLEHEAD - Catholic churches within the 19-county Diocese of Toledo will open their doors for a special evening of confession during “The Light is On” on Wednesday. The event, which is held on ...

Catholic priests in California would be legally obligated to report to police sexual abuse confessions brought to them by fellow priests and other church employees if a bill quickly moving through the ...