COMMENTARY: Confession lines reveal both our impatience and our devotion — and whether our faith runs so deep that even our ...

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 ...

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 ...

I could have walked out," Roof said. Church surveillance videos indicate Roof was actually inside for about 45 minutes. Roof, as he has for much of the trial, hardly looked up as the confession played ...

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 ...

We have to (yes, we're going to say it) confess to being late on this story. But given the confusion that's been caused by some headlines and web postings, it seems we should pass along word that ...

An iPhone app aimed at helping Catholics through confession and encouraging lapsed followers back to the faith has been sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the United States. "Confession: A Roman ...

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

DRIVE-THROUGH BLESSINGS. IT’S HOLY WEEK, BUT WITH THE STAY-AT-HOME ORDER, THAT MEANS PEOPLE CANNOT COME TO THE CHURCH NOW OR THIS WEEKEND TONIGHT ONE CLERGYMAN IS MAKING SURE HIS PARISHIONERS TRY AND ...

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 ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Can I get a side order of Grace with that? Most Americans have used drive-thrus for fast food, coffee and prescriptions, but one Alabama church is offering drive-thru confessions ...

PARISPARIS — France’s government has summoned the head of the French bishops’ conference after he said that secrets shared in the confessional are above the law, as the country reels from new ...