Discover the decline in Catholic confession rates over the past century and its impact on the Church. Learn about the reasons ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

Need to prepare for confessional or study the sacrament? Now, there’s an app for that. The mobile applications company Little iApps has teamed with two Catholic priests to create “Confession: A Roman ...

The term "Jesus phone" has just taken on a whole new meaning. A Catholic bishop in Indiana has, for the first time, given his official imprimatur--or blessing, if you will--to an iPhone/iPad app.

Media coverage of the Catholic Church can sometimes feel like a bad weather system that settles over my soul. Those hopeful days in March of 2013, when Pope Francis' election signaled a season of ...