In October 2025, Washington state agreed to withdraw a controversial mandate compelling priests to report allegations of ...

In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the state of Washington over its recent law mandating that priests must violate the seal of confession if child abuse is learned about during the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

During the six years he attended the Tobique Indian Day School, in Canada's eastern province of New Brunswick, David Perley lived in fear of being hit by the Sisters who taught there. That's what ...

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” ...