Confession is not to decide whether God will forgive; that has already happened. In confession the hope is to hear that truth in one’s heart and embrace it.

I don’t usually *do* many things that I can confess but my interior life is a mess. I am filled with anger about a number of things; I harbor some really hateful thoughts towards people who have ...

The 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film “I Confess,” based on an earlier play, features a priest suspected of murder. He’s innocent, ...

"People confess to crimes they don't commit because they fear the death penalty, because they are mentally ill or they are intellectually handicapped," Possley told me.

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 ...

LAKE COUNTY, Ill.-- How much weight should we give to confessions? We know people confess falsely, sometimes very convincingly, but how do we know which ones to believe? What if the confession ...

1. You need to. You have a mortal sin on your soul, and it’s killing you. You know you want to live. So go to confession. 3. Your kids need to see you do it. You can talk all you want about ...