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 ...

Yes, every time one of us goes to confession, two worlds meet in the encounter of penitent and confessor: the disordered thirst that is sin and the savior who alone can satiate our souls.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, representing over 500 Roman Catholic priests and deacons from the U.S., Australia, and the United Kingdom, has issued a statement defending the inviolability of ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Timothy Gabrielli, University of Dayton (THE CONVERSATION) The 1953 Alfred ...

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 ...