A Future for Confession

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

From public confession to private penance: How Catholic confession has evolved over centuries

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 ...
National Catholic Reporter

Is confession dead? Q&A with a Catholic historian on the state of the sacrament

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

‘For I Have Sinned’ Review: The Endangered Confessional

What I said to the priest at my last confession is none of your business. It also wasn’t that interesting, so you didn’t miss much. In the usual way of this Catholic sacrament, it started with an ...
Washington Examiner

A myopic threat to Catholic priests to break the seal of confession

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 ...
National Catholic Register

New ‘Joyfully Married’ Book, Making a Good Confession, and More Great Links!

For More Outstanding Catholic News Links, Click Here – Tito Edwards at Big Pulpit Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope ...