Without doubt, wrote Martin Luther, “;confession of sins is necessary, and in accordance with the divine commandments” But Luther was dead set against the Roman Catholic obligation to confess before ...

In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen: "Forgive me, father, for I have sinned." This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...

In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen: “Forgive me, father, for I have sinned.” This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...

(RNS) — Catholic leaders are pushing back against efforts to alter state laws that exempt clergy from reporting child abuse they hear about during the sacrament of confession, arguing the changes will ...

During the war, Dr. Frank (“Soul Surgeon”) Buchman and his bright-eyed disciples of Moral Re-Armament concentrated on the U.S. Last spring they bounced back across the Atlantic, to set about “changing ...

An art installation demonstrating the potential for AI to have a role in religion wasn't set up to take confession.

Catholicand Orthodox clergy who had sued to block that part of the law, arguing it violated their religious freedom. The U.S. Department of Justice had also intervened, claiming the law discriminates ...

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