Jackie Kennedy's secret confessions to her priest unveil the hidden heartaches of the beloved first lady. "It's so good in a way to write all this down and get it off your chest – because I never do ...

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

Five years ago, in Langenberg, West Germany, a teen-age butcher’s apprentice confessed to a Roman Catholic priest that he had murdered an eight-year-old boy. During the confession, and in subsequent ...

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

In recent years, some Catholics have been concerned by pushes from governments in locations such as Louisiana and Australia who challenge the secrecy of the sacrament of confession, asking that ...