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. Photo Credit: The Lionfish Group The Confessional (2009) is a psychological thriller film. It follows a sculptor who targets the ...

“Psychoanalysis is old stuff to the Catholics, of course. Only they do it on their knees for free, instead of on a couch at $10 an hour.” This easy assumption that the Roman Catholic Sacrament of ...

What can a person do when put in an impossible position, when caught between the demands of the state on the one hand and God and his Church on the other? In some jurisdictions Catholic priests are ...

California state Sen. Jerry Hill introduced a bill to the state Legislature on Feb. 20 that would require Catholic priests to report child sex abuse learned about in the confessional. The clergy and ...

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.

The California State Senate has passed a bill that would require Catholic priests to violate the seal of confession. Introduced by state Sen. Jerry Hill, the legislation applies to situations where a ...

Five years ago, in Langenberg, West Germany, a teen-age butcher’s apprentice confessed to a Roman Catholic priest that he had murdered an eight-year-old boy. During the confession, and in subsequent ...

The nation is rightly frustrated over the failure to get to the bottom of the Jeffrey Epstein child sexual abuse network. Any child abuser or accomplice should be swiftly brought to justice. The ...