It’s not clear how it happened, but somehow Yom Kippur seems to have been canceled this year. The public is duly warned. That’s right: Jews are not permitted this year to find fault in themselves or ...

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, ...

For I Have Sinned presents a social history of the practice of confession by American Catholics. For generations, Catholics in the United States went to confession regularly and in large numbers. It ...