National Catholic Register

Study Finds Nearly 70% of Catholics Who Have Not Gone to Confession in the Past Year Want to Go

The Catholic Pulse Report finds that God’s mercy remains the top draw for both regulars and those who have not received the ...
Yahoo

From public confession to private penance: How Catholic confession has evolved over centuries

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 ...
Crux

As Lent continues, a first-of-its-kind national study finds that most Catholics would consider going to Confession

Do you ever go to confession in a Catholic Church? Most Catholics in the United States who go to Mass at least occasionally ...
Washington Examiner

A myopic threat to Catholic priests to break the seal of confession

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 ...
National Catholic Reporter

AI Jesus might 'listen' to your confession, but it can’t absolve your sins − a scholar of Catholicism explains

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 ...
National Catholic Register

What is the Seal of Confession?

The release this month of a watershed report on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in France has sparked another debate over the secrecy of confession. The Catholic Church declares that every priest ...
The Atlantic

Catholic Church Approves Confession App

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.