Fresh off of a wildly successful run at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and featuring special songs to tie into the ...

The president of the French bishops’ conference has accepted a request to discuss his recent comments about the confessional seal with the country’s interior minister. Archbishop Éric de ...

The spokeswoman for France’s bishops’ conference clarified Wednesday that the country’s Catholic leaders do not intend to compromise on the Church’s teaching that the confessional seal is sacrosanct. ...

DOVER, Del.- A proposed bill in the Delaware Legislature would require Roman Catholic priests to report confessions relating to child abuse and neglect. However, the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, ...

This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. The installation was a two-month project in religion, technology and art titled "Deus in Machina ...

Jim Gaffigan's bourbon comedy special "Live from Old Forester: The Bourbon Set" goes viral with 3.6M YouTube views in two ...

A federal court in Washington state has approved a settlement agreement between the state and its three Catholic dioceses that would not mandate clergy to report sex abuse revealed during confession.

Silenced Irish priest Father Tony Flannery has once again broken ranks with church authorities in Ireland by calling for an overhaul of the ancient seal of Confession. On the eve of a speaking tour in ...

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 ...

The Catholic seal of confession could lose its legal protection in California, at least as it concerns to knowledge of child abuse. Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, announced Wednesday that he is ...

California state lawmakers are introducing a bill that would strip priests of their legal protection for the Catholic Church's sacrament of confession when it comes to child sexual abuse. The ...