NCR interviews James O'Toole, whose new book, For I Have Sinned, details the growth and eventual decline of confession in the ...

Evangelical author Philip Yancey sold millions of books about the importance of grace. But after confessing to an eight-year ...

Under the legislation, priests and pastors would be forced to report child abuse if they have a reasonable suspicion “to ...

In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take ...

NCR readers respond to articles about the state of the sacrament of reconciliation, the appointment of Archbishop Hicks and ...

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 judge overseeing the case of a Hialeah teen accused of brutally stabbing his mother to death more than two years ago is ...