An art installation demonstrating the potential for AI to have a role in religion wasn't set up to take confession.

God the Father, knowing his children will still be prone to reject him, also sent the Son to give us the Holy Spirit through the sacrament of reconciliation. To give a proper perspective on the ...

The priest must and does refuse absolution to a penitent when he thinks the penitent is not rightly disposed for the Sacrament. He sometimes postpones the absolution till the next confession ...

In the future, a program like AI Jesus could be used to hear confessions around the clock. But with no experience of having a ...

Thomas Rausch, a professor of theology at Loyola Marymount University, told USA TODAY the installation is in no way a substitute for or equivalent to the Catholic sacrament of reconciliation.

A confessional is a booth where Catholic priests hear parishioners’ confessions of their sins and grant them absolution, ...