Visitors were invited to pose questions to the AI Jesus, viewed on a monitor behind a latticework screen. Courtesy of the Catholic Church of the City of Lucerne, CC BY This autumn, a Swiss 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 ...

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 ...

In a surreal scene no one could have envisioned before the coronavirus pandemic, a stream of cars slowly navigated along orange cones in the parking lot of St. Augustine’s Church last Saturday as ...

“For all who do evil hate the light…so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light …” (John 3:20-21) It was a rainy Sunday in 1969, and my 5-year-old brother ...

Visitors were invited to pose questions to the AI Jesus, viewed on a monitor behind a latticework screen. (Courtesy of the Catholic Church of the City of Lucerne, CC BY) This autumn, a Swiss Catholic ...

This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. The installation was a two-month project in religion, technology and art titled "Deus in Machina ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross (THE CONVERSATION) In the autum on ...