National Catholic Reporter

Is confession dead? Q&A with a Catholic historian on the state of the sacrament

In October 2025, Washington state agreed to withdraw a controversial mandate compelling priests to report allegations of sexual abuse specifically revealed during the sacrament of confession. The bill ...
Yahoo

AI Jesus might ‘listen’ to your confession, but it can’t absolve your sins

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 ...
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 ...
Yahoo

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors were invited to pose questions to the AI Jesus, viewed on a monitor behind a latticework screen. Courtesy of the Catholic ...
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 ...