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

Should we force AI to give confessions, especially when dispensing mental health advice? Some say yes, others insist no. I ...

In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels, and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen: "Forgive me father, for I have sinned." This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...

Visitors were invited to pose questions to the AI Jesus, viewed on a monitor behind a latticework screen. Courtesy of the Catholic Church of the City of Lucerne, CC BY This autumn, a Swiss Catholic ...

Despite the Catholic Church’s requirement that Catholics go to confession at least once a year — with more frequent confession highly encouraged, and required if a Catholic is conscious of mortal sin ...

NCR interviews James O'Toole, whose new book, For I Have Sinned, details the growth and eventual decline of confession in the ...

Off in a corner, a solitary red sanctuary lamp flickered, and there were several racks of small votive candles, only about half of them lit at any one time... - Published on August 15, 2025 The church ...

Do you peruse church bulletins online to find convenient-for-you confession times? Do you have a “game plan” for making it to the confessional ahead of a popular Mass time? Mary Farrow is one of the ...

Liam Neeson shared his embarrassing reason for skipping out on confession beginning at age 15 in a new interview. Neeson, 71, told comedian Conan O'Brien for an upcoming podcast episode that an ...