Despite the Catholic Church’s requirement that Catholics go to confession at least once a year — with more frequent confession highly encouraged, and required if a Catholic is conscious of mortal sin ...
The Roman Catholic Church urges its faithful to confess their sins to a priest at least once a year, and insists that they do so before receiving Communion if they have committed a mortal sin. In ...
(The Conversation) — The Catholic Church treats information shared during confession as absolutely confidential – but that requirement can create legal dilemmas. (The Conversation) — The 1953 Alfred ...
Romain Duris and Marine Vacth star in 'The Confession' ('La Confession'), writer-director Nicolas Boukhrief's adaptation of the 1952 Goncourt-winning novel 'Leon Morin, Pretre.' By Jordan Mintzer A ...
In rare instances, it noted, the secrecy around the sacrament had been used to cover up abuse cases, again raising issues of whether church or state law should prevail. By Norimitsu Onishi and ...
On Dec. 1, 2008, Worcester, Mass. police had 16-year-old Nga Truong locked in an interrogation room. Her 13-month-old son, Khyle, died the day before. “Now you said to me earlier you were going to ...