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

The Catholic Pulse Report finds that God’s mercy remains the top draw for both regulars and those who have not received the ...
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As Lent continues, a first-of-its-kind national study finds that most Catholics would consider going to Confession

Do you ever go to confession in a Catholic Church? Most Catholics in the United States who go to Mass at least occasionally ...

Revival in the pews, crisis at the altar: Why churches are closing amid a Catholic comeback

An in-depth look at the Catholic priest shortage driving parish closures even as young adults return to the pews, and what it ...
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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 ...
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Catholics return to confession focused on grace, not a get-out-of-hell-free card

The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday, and some Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines outside the confessional. The faithful across the United States are ...
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AI Jesus might 'listen' to your confession, but it can’t absolve your sins − a scholar of Catholicism explains

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 ...
National Catholic Register

Montana Bill Could Require Priests to Break Seal of Confession

While clergy are often mandatory reporters outside of the confessional, long-standing legal precedent in the U.S. recognizes the religious freedom of confessors and penitents to be exempt from those ...