Catholics return to confession focused on grace, not a get-out-of-hell-free card

The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday and Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines ...
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 Register

Confession App Can't Substitute for the Real Sacrament

iPhone application is for preparation only, Vatican reminds users. An iPhone screen displays the confession application from Little iApps developed for mobile devices. "Confession: A Roman Catholic ...
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 Reporter

AI Jesus might 'listen' to your confession, but it can’t absolve your sins − a scholar of Catholicism explains

This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. The installation was a two-month project in religion, technology and art titled "Deus in Machina ...
Catholic News Agency

Christian groups stand with diocese to protect Seal of Confession

Nearly 20 organizations, both Catholic and other denominations of Christian, have joined the Diocese of Baton Rouge in asking the Supreme Court to protect a priest from being forced to violate the ...