Priests who revealed the identity of any penitent faced severe penalties. Guidebooks for priests, generally called Handbooks for Confessors, listed various types of sins and suggested appropriate ...

Guidebooks for priests, generally called Handbooks for Confessors, listed various types of sins and suggested appropriate penances for each. Until the 16th century, those wishing to confess their ...

Mr Zelenskyy told Sky's Stuart Ramsay the "hot phase of the war" could end if unoccupied parts of the country were offered NATO membership, allowing him to negotiate the return of the rest later.

Swift’s tour comes to an end on Sunday night in Vancouver, Canada.Credit...Alana Paterson for The New York Times Things changed during the tour. When it began in March 2023, Swift was still in a ...

The peak-end rule was first proposed by psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who found that people’s overall satisfaction with an experience could be overwhelmingly shaped by two things: the most ...

Yet these are exactly the kinds of opportunities that arise in the market's best closed-end funds (CEFs). CEFs are a type of investment fund, and in fact, they are older than mutual funds.

They’re disturbing films, chilling the viewer to the bone. So, too, is “The End,” which when I first heard about it sounded like a particularly unlikely Oppenheimer project. The film ...

Several theories explore potential scenarios for Earth's demise, ranging from cosmic events to human-made catastrophes. Asteroid impacts, supervolcanic eruptions, and climate change pose ...

I call on all leaders to heed this year’s theme and take the ‘rights’ path,” he declared. UNAIDS, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, reinforced the call, urging governments to “take the rights path ...