A new poll certainly tells the Catholic Church what it wants to hear: That 67% of Catholics who haven't been to confession in the past year are open to returning, with roughly half expre ...

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.

A federal judge has halted a Washington state law that required Catholic priests to break the seal of confession. The law that was passed in May, and was slated to go into effect on July 27, mandated ...

The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday, and some Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines outside the confessional. The faithful across the United States are ...

Q: Recently I went to confession on Saturday afternoon before my parish's vigil Mass. The priest told me to say a rosary for ...

Bishops from Washington’s three Catholic dioceses announced a lawsuit Thursday against the state, challenging a newly enacted law that compels priests to report suspected child abuse revealed during ...

A: The short answer is no; you didn’t do anything wrong by receiving holy Communion before completing your penance.

The state of Washington reached an agreement with Catholic officials this week not to require priests to report information that they learn in sacramental confession about suspected child abuse or ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge blocked Washington state Friday from enforcing a law that would require Catholic priests to report child abuse — even when disclosed in a confessional — or face nearly a ...

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