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 ...
National Catholic Register

Exorcist Diary: Satan’s Second Sin, Do I Really Need to Go to Confession, 10 Steps of the Mystic Ladder, and More Great Links!

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...
The Columbian

‘A step back in time’: America’s Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways

Birth control was quietly accepted in many parishes, and confession barely mentioned. Catholic social teaching on poverty suffused churches. Most priests traded in their cassocks for plain black ...