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 ...

Confession, the Catholic and Orthodox practice of listing one’s sins in the presence of a priest who then offers absolution and is sworn to secrecy under pain of eternal damnation, has long been a ...

For generations, American Catholics regularly went to confession, a sacred rite that offers a way to reconcile with God and the Church. But starting in the 1970s, they stopped, and in his new book, ...

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Priest pleaded repentance, also encouraging Catholics more broadly to reflect on whether they were receiving Communion worthily and to approach Communion as though it were their first and their last.

In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take place in an apparent Eden (the cozy village, the ivied college, the country ...

Since 2010, film fans have celebrated November as “Noirvember,” challenging each other to dig into the film noir genre. Noir, which had its Hollywood heyday in the 1940s and ’50s, featured morally ...

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