VANCOUVER Wash. (KPTV) - Catholic priests are pushing back against a new Washington state law that requires clergy to report child abuse to law enforcement, even if the information was obtained in the ...

Washington State permanently withdrew the law requiring clergy to violate the sacred “seal of confession” by reporting sexual abuse that was disclosed in a confession booth, according to a court order ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Nov. 20 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) alerts people to a purported new offering at St. Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland. "NEW - A church in Switzerland is now using an AI hologram ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In the autum on 2024, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. This hologram of Jesus Christ on a screen was animated by an ...