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"[C]onfession is hard," Dorothy Day once said. "You do not want to make too much of your constant imperfections and venial ...
All priests should desire to carry out a holy ministry and to confer the sacraments in a way that leads others to Christ. However, sometimes the mix of personalities in the confessional makes it ...
The Nebraska Supreme Court this week took up a question that rarely comes up in the state. When can a confession to a priest ...
After the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that a priest may have to testify about an alleged confession, the Diocese of Baton Rouge said that this demand "assaults" Church teaching and is ...
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 ...
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 ...
There is controversy over one priest's new method of offering an instant confession using a smartphone. The anonymous Texas priest is letting people send him digital confessions over Snapchat and the ...
The Nebraska Supreme Court last week took up a question that rarely comes up in the state. When can a confession to a priest ...
Visitors were invited to pose questions to the AI Jesus, viewed on a monitor behind a latticework screen. Courtesy of the Catholic Church of the City of Lucerne, CC BY In the autum on 2024, a Swiss ...
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 ...