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

A priest hearing confession at a Rome church on March 26, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters) Almost 50 years ago, Dr. Karl Menninger raised a concern for both ...

When I entered the Catholic Church some years ago, I recall someone in RCIA saying that the focus on Confession had shifted in recent years. They said that the focus for a long time was about the act ...

So confession, in the Orthodox practice, is the ultimate expression of love. It’s not seen as a means to punish people, to demean or humiliate anyone. It’s recognizing that Christ entrusted this care ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Furrow is a monthly journal for the contemporary Church. It enjoys an international reputation as a courageous and impartial ...

COLUMBUS, Mississippi ─ He obsessed over the police interrogation for years, tormenting himself with questions he could not answer. "How could you be so stupid?" Tyler Edmonds asked himself. "Why ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

China’s top court has banned the use of torture to extract confessions, the latest in a series of reforms to its criminal justice system. According to state-run news agency Xinhua, a document released ...