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 ...

Right off the bat, it’s important to point out that the Catholic Church takes privacy in the confessional very seriously. The Church is commissioned by Christ to give the faithful — especially those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors were invited to pose questions to the AI Jesus, viewed on a monitor behind a latticework screen. Courtesy of the Catholic ...

Fifty years ago, when Monsignor Thomas A. Kane was a freshly ordained Roman Catholic priest, he'd sit in a confessional booth each Saturday for four hours and listen to people list their sins. The ...

A Louisiana judge has ruled that a state law requiring clergy to report child abuse or other crimes learned in the confessional is unconstitutional because it infringes on religious liberty. At issue ...

“Receive the Holy Spirit,” said the risen Lord to his apostles. “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven. If you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” The sacrament of Penance, ...

A federal court in Washington state has approved a settlement agreement between the state and its three Catholic dioceses that would not mandate clergy to report sex abuse revealed during confession.

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 ...