A new bill before the Arizona House of Representatives could force priests and pastors to break their seal of confession. The ...

Lawmakers in multiple U.S. states in recent years have moved to require priests to violate the seal of confession as part of ...

NCR interviews James O'Toole, whose new book, For I Have Sinned, details the growth and eventual decline of confession in the ...

Under the legislation, priests and pastors would be forced to report child abuse if they have a reasonable suspicion “to ...

The proposed law reignites national debate over the balance between child protection and religious freedom. By requiring ...

Confession, the Catholic and Orthodox practice of listing one’s sins in the presence of a priest who then offers absolution and is sworn to secrecy under pain of eternal damnation, has long been a ...

Lawmakers in Washington state are considering a proposal that would force clergy members to violate the confidentiality of the sacrament of confession if they hear about an incident of child abuse or ...

In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take ...

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 ...

Washington state officials have agreed to a permanent court order that prevents the enforcement of a controversial law provision which sought to criminalize Orthodox Christian priests for upholding ...

In recent years, some Catholics have been concerned by pushes from governments in locations such as Louisiana and Australia who challenge the secrecy of the sacrament of confession, asking that ...