NCR readers respond to articles about the state of the sacrament of reconciliation, the appointment of Archbishop Hicks and ...

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

UPDATE: According to CNN, a spokesperson for the Vatican has responded saying: "It is essential to understand well the sacrament of penitence requires the personal dialogue between the penitent and ...

Phone service invites French Catholics to make long-distance confessions. PARIS, March 3, 2010 -- French Catholics too busy to go to church are now being offered a dial-a-confession telephone hotline ...

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

WILLIAMSTON — The Rev. Mark Rutherford prepared to hear confessions by donning a long robe. He also wore a hat to keep out the unseasonable May chill, sunglasses to shield his eyes and mask to limit ...

Confession: A Roman Catholic App helps iPhone users confess their sins. Feb. 8, 2011 — -- It seems as though the Catholic Church really really wants us to go to confession, so much so that ...

The depth of the sorrows of Our Lady of Sorrows has become apparent in the months since this church was a major hotspot in New York City’s roaring coronavirus contagion Friday 26 March 2021 04:04 GMT ...