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 ...

Right off the bat, it’s important to point out that the Catholic Church takes privacy in the confessional very seriously. The Church is commissioned by Christ to give the faithful — especially those ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Countless Catholics on social media have shared experiences of harm by priests in the confessional booth — verbal and spiritual abuse, sexism, inappropriate conduct and out-of-touch priestly counsel.

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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 ...

What I said to the priest at my last confession is none of your business. It also wasn’t that interesting, so you didn’t miss much. In the usual way of this Catholic sacrament, it started with an ...