The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, representing over 500 Catholic priests and deacons, has issued a statement defending ...

The Justice Department's lawsuit backed the Catholic leaders in a legal filing on Monday, arguing the law "unlawfully targets ...

A version of this story appeared in the Dec 28, 2018-Jan 10, 2019 print issue under the headline: Now is the time to modify the Catholic Church's 'seal of confession'. Advertisement Most Read Stories ...

In 2000, Pope John Paul II declared Magallanes a saint in the Catholic Church and a martyr for the faith. Magallanes was not the first or the last priest willing to die rather than break the seal ...

The Church’s teaching on confession is briefly presented in paragraph 1422 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which collects the teachings in Vatican II’s [constitution] Lumen gentium ...

St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church is seen on a New York City street in this May 2, 2019, photo. The church was named for the 14th-century Bohemian saint, considered the first martyr of the seal ...

The Catholic Church and federal government reacted vehemently to new legislation in Washington state that requires priests to report child abuse or neglect to law ... "The seal of confession ...

According to the National Catholic Reporter, seven states require priests to break the confessional seal under laws enacted in the 1970s and ’80s, but California’s would be the first ...

Declan Seal, 2, is held by his mother, Cassie Lassabe, at the funeral service for Declan’s father, Cayce Seal, 28, at St. Clare Catholic Church in Waveland on July 1, 2021.

The Catholic Church has announced that priests in Washington state will face excommunication if they comply with a new law requiring them to report child abuse confessions to authorities. The law ...

The confraternity’s statement emphasized that the Catholic Church teaches the seal of confession is inviolable with “absolutely no exceptions.” Expounded in the Catechism of the Catholic ...