A Missouri Catholic priest was found guilty by the church of soliciting sex from an adult during a confession, an act the church described as "a sacrilege" and a "grave form of abuse" that cannot be ...

Do you peruse church bulletins online to find convenient-for-you confession times? Do you have a “game plan” for making it to the confessional ahead of a popular Mass time? Mary Farrow is one of the ...

DRIVE-THROUGH BLESSINGS. IT’S HOLY WEEK, BUT WITH THE STAY-AT-HOME ORDER, THAT MEANS PEOPLE CANNOT COME TO THE CHURCH NOW OR THIS WEEKEND TONIGHT ONE CLERGYMAN IS MAKING SURE HIS PARISHIONERS TRY AND ...

Fifty years ago, when Monsignor Thomas A. Kane was a freshly ordained Roman Catholic priest, he'd sit in a confessional booth each Saturday for four hours and listen to people list their sins. The ...

A priest and a penitent demonstrate how a confession is conducted at a Catholic church in Salem, Ore., in this May 3, 2019, file photo. Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a leading expert on child protection ...

Bishops in France have voiced opposition to a bill debated in the National Assembly on Monday that would require Catholic ...

In a surreal scene no one could have envisioned before the coronavirus pandemic, a stream of cars slowly navigated along orange cones in the parking lot of St. Augustine’s Church last Saturday as ...

PARIS — After the shock comes the time for reflection and action: Two weeks after the Oct. 5 publication of the Ciase Report on “Sexual Violence in the Catholic Church between 1950 and 2020,” the ...

Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church near Mandeville (Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans will open all of its churches for the next three ...

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 ...