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 ...

The Catholic Church in Hong Kong said Friday that confessions by devotees to priests would remain confidential under the city’s new national security law ...

Matthew Arnold (www.matthewarnold.org) is a Catholic speaker, author and producer. He converted to the Catholic faith in 1996. He has been both host and guest on many Catholic radio programs, ...

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Media coverage of the Catholic Church can sometimes feel like a bad weather system that settles over my soul. Those hopeful days in March of 2013, when Pope Francis' election signaled a season of ...

In the late '60s, when the Rev. Jan Larson was a new Roman Catholic priest, he would sit in a dark confessional for hours and listen to people rattle off a "grocery list" of sins. They had impure ...

The Roman Catholic archdiocese has launched an app for those with an urgent need for confession. The confession app, using technology similar to the hook-up app Tinder, is believed to be the first ...

Australia’s Catholic Church has rejected calls for priests to be compelled to report child abuse revealed in confessionals. The Church said Friday it would accept “98%” of recommendations made by a ...