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 ...

In a discussion on the Vatican's repatriation of 62 Indigenous cultural items to Canada, Dr. Cody Groat and Noah MacDonald shared nuanced perspectives on cultural heritage, faith and reconciliation in ...

Pope Francis accepts a report from the Rev. Edgardo A. Colón-Emeric, dean of Duke University Divinity School in Durham, N.C., and the new Methodist co-chair of the Joint International Commission for ...

After the sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, there is a worldwide push to end the guarantee of secrecy of confession – called “the seal of the confessional.” On Sept. 11, 2019, two ...

The release this month of a watershed report on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in France has sparked another debate over the secrecy of confession. The Catholic Church declares that every priest ...

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 ...

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 ...

Workers prepare the grounds outside Rome's main synagogue Jan. 14 in advance of Pope Benedict's visit. (CNS) Editor's note: Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to visit the Great Synagogue of Rome Jan. 17.

After the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that a priest may have to testify about an alleged confession, the Diocese of Baton Rouge said that this demand "assaults" Church teaching and is ...

Exploring their sacraments, rituals and outreach that promote reconciliation with God and among people, Catholic and Methodist experts acknowledged in a new document that divided Christians "fall ...