Opinion

A Future for Confession

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 ...
The recent Ecumenical Council declaration concerning the Jews, later promulgated by Pope Paul VI as official Catholic Church doctrine, is not a Catholic “absolution” of the Jews but a Catholic ...
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 ...