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

NCR readers respond to articles about the state of the sacrament of reconciliation, the appointment of Archbishop Hicks and ...

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

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

“When I think about a vocational call, I think of two things: First, God is the one who calls, and it is always a call of ...

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

On New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, and the first day of 2026, the Catholic Church offers the opportunity to obtain plenary ...

Washington state's government and its Catholic bishops reached an agreement Oct. 10 in a federal lawsuit over the state's mandatory reporter law they said could force priests to violate the seal of ...

Trump Orders DOJ to Investigate Bill Clinton, Other Prominent Dems Linked to Jeffrey Epstein Georgia Police Department Recommits to ‘Inclusivity’ Training After Officer ‘Misgenders’ Man Using Women’s ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

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 ...