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

The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has just released its Criminal Justice Report in which it deals with many matters relating to the way child sexual ...

The president of the French bishops’ conference discussed the “clumsy wording” of his recent comments about the confessional seal with the country’s interior minister on Tuesday. In a statement after ...

The Catholic Church is pushing back against a new law that was rushed through the legislature by Democrats over concerns of clergy, requiring priests to break the confidentiality of confession.

A church in Switzerland has stirred up controversy with an art installation in its confessional booth featuring an AI-powered avatar of Jesus. According to a report from the Associated Press, Peter's ...

One church’s experiment of using AI in its confessional booth is facing mixed feedback. Peter’s Chapel, a Catholic chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland, partnered with researchers to install a digital ...

ROME – Among non-Catholics – and, for that matter, among some Catholics too – an announcement by the Australian bishops on Friday that the seal of the confessional is “non-negotiable,” even in cases ...

The Diocese of Baton Rouge warned Monday the sanctity of the confessional is under attack by a recent Louisiana Supreme Court ruling the church says might force a priest to reveal in court what was ...

To protect the sacrament of reconciliation as a "channel of grace" for victims of sexual abuse, the Catholic Church must do a better job of instructing priests on what to do if a victim recounts his ...

Fresh off of a wildly successful run at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and featuring special songs to tie into the ...