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 ...

Languages: English. Catholic bishops in Washington state are rejecting a new law that requires clergy to report child sexual abuse revealed during the sacrament of confession—setting up a ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Columbus is home to the largest collection of diversified Catholic Art in the United States. In light of Thursday’s election of a new pope, leaders at the Museum of ...

Catholic clergy members in Washington may be forced to choose between excommunication or disobeying the government because of a recently signed law that requires them to break the seal of confession ...

The new law does not make room for an exemption if knowledge of the suspected abuse comes to light through the Catholic sacrament of confession. “While we remain committed to protecting minors ...

The secrecy of the confessional in the Roman Catholic Church is so sacrosanct ... even if that knowledge arises during the sacrament of confession. It has outraged many Catholics in the state ...

Yet the privilege in play when a Catholic makes a sacramental confession to a priest is of an even higher order because it protects communications that occur between penitential sinners and the ...

The book has a subtitle: the Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America, but it’s relevant for Australians too, many of whom will be visiting church for the first time this year ...

Much of the book focuses on experience of Confession for American Catholics through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ­attentive to the ways in which it structured American Catholic culture ...

Watch the official “A Forced Confession“” clip from Netflix’s highly anticipated thriller drama movie Revelations, directed by the talented Yeon Sang Ho. Revelations Cast: Ryu Jun Yeol ...

The exhibition is not a survey, but, the collector readily admits, a reflection of his own perspective as to what Catholic art should look like. The portraits evoke the Old Masters and avoid ...