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23 people share anonymous confessions that they wouldn’t admit publicly

This post is all about getting it off your chest and owning up to past wrongs. While confessing anonymously to randoms on the ...
National Catholic Register

Vermont Bill Proposal Could Jeopardize Seal of Confession

According to the senator who plans to introduce the legislation, the proposal ‘tries to make clear there [will be] no confidentiality’ exception, regardless of the context in which the clergy member ...
Psychology Today

Confessions, Torture, and Criminal Law

Imagine a justice system that recognises torture is wrong—but only sometimes. Picture a courtroom where a confession extracted from a terrified suspect can still be used for a conviction, depending on ...
National Catholic Reporter

Over centuries, Catholic confession has evolved from public confession to private penance

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

Study Finds Nearly 70% of Catholics Who Have Not Gone to Confession in the Past Year Want to Go

This Lent, a new study finds that two-thirds of Catholics who have not attended confession in the last year say they are open to going. According to “The Catholic Pulse Report: The Confession Study,” ...
The Conversation

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 ...