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

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 ...

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 Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday, and some Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines outside the confessional. “They come to confession feeling as if they ...

In his pastoral letter, “Lent in Times of Trial,” Archbishop Fernando Sebastian of Pamplona has demanded that priests definitively cease from abusing the practice of general absolution “in which the ...

now what are my sins. . . . On Good Friday, April 4, 1947, awaiting execution, Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz, asked to see a Catholic priest. On April 10, 1947, the Thursday after Easter, three ...