These sleek guides to essential Catholic spiritual practices are great for beginners or anyone who needs a refresher. Catholic spiritual practices are sometimes easier said than done. How many times ...

(The Conversation) — The Catholic Church treats information shared during confession as absolutely confidential – but that requirement can create legal dilemmas. (The Conversation) — The 1953 Alfred ...

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 ...

For I Have Sinned presents a social history of the practice of confession by American Catholics. For generations, Catholics in the United States went to confession regularly and in large numbers. It ...

Francis X. Maier’s book, True Confessions, arrives as an interpretive key to the Church in our time. An old saying warns that “the past is a foreign country,” whose customs and inner life are ...

To Sarah Reinhard, the sacrament of confession is an important act of self-care, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. "I would say this would probably be the top self-care thing you could do ...

Our two most recent selections in the Catholic Book Club are both set in the American Southwest and are both deeply Catholic in their themes and their characters; both are also novels that their ...

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 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 ...