The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday and Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former New Mexico priest repeatedly sexually abused a young girl in confessional booths six decades ago claiming she was “chosen ...

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – Based on what he’s heard in the confessional amid a bitter civil war, a Catholic priest serving in his African country’s troubled southwestern region says “the Devil has unleashed ...

A Milwaukee priest has been urging state legislators to repeal the clergy-penitent privilege in mandatory reporting laws that exempt Catholic priests from notifying authorities of any sexual abuse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Roman Catholic bishops and priests filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging a new Washington law that requires ...

The legislation would mandate clergy to report child abuse even if they obtained the information during confession.

Catholic leaders are pushing back against efforts to alter state laws that exempt clergy from reporting child abuse they hear about during the sacrament of confession, arguing the changes will force ...

Bills currently under consideration in the Washington and Vermont legislatures would make all clergy in the state mandatory reporters of sexual abuse and would remove so-called clergy-penitent ...

Live on 'Dentro la notizia' on Canale 5, Gianluigi Nuzzi interviewed Don John Gutierrez Sanchez, the 49-year-old Colombian priest who had disappeared in 2023. The priest explained: "I did ...

A priest has no duty to report confidential information heard during a sacramental confession, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled Friday in a bid to clear up what it called the "widespread confusion" ...