An upstate New York man was arrested this week moments after he left a TV studio where he confessed in an on-camera interview that he had killed his parents.
The suspect in the assassination of a Minnesota state representative and her husband reportedly wrote a letter blaming the Gov. Tim Walz (D) for the killings he is accused of committing.
After spending a year defending child groomers, the far-left Associated Press has declared the confidential seal of confession a “loophole.”
Texas deputies said a doorbell camera recorded a former college football player’s confession to murdering his pregnant sister using a knife, according to several reports.
A father in West Virginia has admitted that he married and had sex with his daughter after the two killed her boyfriend in February.
Illegal immigrant Javier da Silva allegedly confessed to the murder of 24-year-old Valerie Reyes of Westchester County, New York, whose body was found in a suitcase.
Catholic leaders in India have forcefully denounced a proposed government ban on the sacrament of confession, saying it is unconstitutional and a violation of religious freedom.
The family of freed American prisoner Tony Kim thanked President Trump for “engaging directly with North Korea.” The statement was released as Kim and two other former prisoners flew home with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday.
A man who allegedly killed a Queens jogger explained in graphic detail how he brutally beat and strangled his victim to death, according to video footage broadcast at his pre-trial hearing Monday.
A careful distinction must be made between psychological problems and “true spiritual disturbances,” Pope Francis said Friday, but in the latter case, an exorcist should be called in.
Pope Francis has granted all priests of the Catholic Church the faculty of absolving the sin of abortion, which several media outlets immediately misinterpreted as a “relaxing” of the Church’s stance on abortion.
The Communist Party of China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has announced it will publish a book of confessions made by Party officials, to serve as a “vivid textbook” for other Party members.
To kick off a global 24-hour “confession drive,” Pope Francis went to confess his own sins on Friday before moving to the other side of the confessional screen to hear the confessions of other penitents. In an address Friday to
In his online media event with groups of Americans in three cities earlier this week, Pope Francis congratulated a single mother on her decision to give birth to two daughters, telling her to hold her head high and not be ashamed.
This has been a big week for Pope Francis, as he celebrated his second anniversary as Pope, granted a lengthy interview in which he said time is ticking away on his pontificate, and called for an extraordinary Jubilee year of mercy for 2016. In the midst of this flurry of activity, Francis also found time to address a group of priests about how to be good confessors, before going to confession himself.
