The Lenten period for penance started the week with Ash Wednesday, and some Catholic priests are happily bracing for long ...

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 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 ...

Evidence show that confession might actually have an origin in the pre-Christian religious customs of ancient Greece.

Thousands of Jubilee of Youth pilgrims headed to the Circus Maximus in Rome on Friday to receive the Church’s sacrament of reconciliation. While patiently waiting in long and winding queues to have ...