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 ...

The Roman Catholic Church urges its faithful to confess their sins to a priest at least once a year, and insists that they do so before receiving Communion if they have committed a mortal sin. In ...

Visitors were invited to pose questions to the AI Jesus, viewed on a monitor behind a latticework screen. (Courtesy of the Catholic Church of the City of Lucerne, CC BY) This autumn, a Swiss Catholic ...

In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen, "Forgive me, father, for I have sinned." This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...

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 the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen: "Forgive me, father, for I have sinned." This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...

Between Oprah and the therapist's couch, is there any role left for the church confession? Noting that the number of Catholics taking part in the key rite has plunged, the Archdiocese of Washington is ...

In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen: “Forgive me, father, for I have sinned.” This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...

In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen: “Forgive me, father, for I have sinned.” This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...