The monks of Mepkin Abbey have unveiled a garden space honoring enslaved buried in unmarked graves on their South Carolina ...

By Anne Marie Amacher The Catholic Messenger The late Pope Francis proclaimed 2025 as a Jubilee Year of Hope. He ...Read More ...

IWC is proud to invite the community to experience the creativity and connection of its Reconciliation Through Art Exhibition, running from Monday 19 May to Friday 24 May at IWC’s Barolin Street ...

During the signing ceremony, Ferguson, who was raised Catholic, said he was “very familiar” with the sacrament of confession. Well, he might want to brush up on his catechism. “He should ...

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 constitutional clash ...

Catholic leaders say that priests who hear confessions are obligated to keep those confessions secret, but that they are supportive of the rule outside of the Catholic sacrament of confession.

For the government to require priests to report any instance of sex abuse that they learn about through the sacrament of confession would directly violate the core of the sacrament and its ...

“I am the priest who in 1972 administered the Sacrament of Confession to one of the Disappeared, Joe Lynskey,” stated the 81-year-old. “Please note it was the Sacrament of Confession—not the Late ...

“I want to assure you that your shepherds, bishop and priests, are committed to keeping the seal of confession – even to the point of going to jail,” Daly said. “The Sacrament of Penance ...