Exclusive: Magdalena Max Avramovich, 56, whose church is also her landlord, claims in a lawsuit that the alleged sacramental ...

If walls could talk, Ambrose Sonnek would have heard some interesting tales when he restored a 123-year-old church confessional this summer. The confessional, now a display cabinet, was the same one ...

A Washington state lawmaker has called on the Catholic Church to change its centuries-old confessional policy so that priests can comply with a new child abuse reporting law. Democratic state Sen.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One church’s experiment of using AI in its confessional booth is facing mixed feedback. “It was really an experiment,” chapel ...

The Diocese of Baton Rouge warned Monday the sanctity of the confessional is under attack by a recent Louisiana Supreme Court ruling the church says might force a priest to reveal in court what was ...

Catholics Return to Confession Focused on Grace, Not a Get-Out-Of-Hell-Free Card The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday, and some Catholic priests are happily bracing for ...

To protect the sacrament of reconciliation as a "channel of grace" for victims of sexual abuse, the Catholic Church must do a better job instructing priests on what to do if a victim recounts his or ...

NEW YORK / ROME — In a much-anticipated response to Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the Australian Catholic Church has announced it will comply with 98 ...

To protect the sacrament of reconciliation as a "channel of grace" for victims of sexual abuse, the Catholic Church must do a better job of instructing priests on what to do if a victim recounts his ...

The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has just released its Criminal Justice Report in which it deals with many matters relating to the way child sexual ...