This week’s Register tells the story of the many bishops who are finding innovative ways to promote confession. Here are seven ways laypeople can follow their example and promote confession ourselves ...

In October 2025, Washington state agreed to withdraw a controversial mandate compelling priests to report allegations of sexual abuse specifically revealed during the sacrament of confession. The bill ...

This Lent, a new study finds that two-thirds of Catholics who have not attended confession in the last year say they are open to going. According to “The Catholic Pulse Report: The Confession Study,” ...

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.

The Word of God came to John in the wilderness. John “went into all the region about the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. As it is written in the book of the ...

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 ...

Confession can feel terrifying. It exposes what we’ve worked hard to hide. It forces us to name the thing we hoped would quietly disappear. Shame whispers that secrecy is safer. Pride insists we can ...

Many spoke out on their feelings about confession in response to my blog entry "When was your Last Confession?" A few things stand out regarding not only the number of responses received, but their ...

Don't make the sacrament of confession more difficult than it has to be. Don’t make the sacrament of confession more difficult than it has to be.Confessing sins to a priest can sometimes feel ...