After the sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, there is a worldwide push to end the guarantee of secrecy of confession – called “the seal of the confessional.” On Sept. 11, 2019, two ...

Despite the Catholic Church’s requirement that Catholics go to confession at least once a year — with more frequent confession highly encouraged, and required if a Catholic is conscious of mortal sin ...

Do you peruse church bulletins online to find convenient-for-you confession times? Do you have a “game plan” for making it to the confessional ahead of a popular Mass time? Mary Farrow is one of the ...

The church is planning to restore Saint Thomas de Villanueva chapel in Havana along with more a dozen more churches, parish houses and other buildings as part of a quiet reconciliation between the ...

How many children have been sexually abused, over time and throughout the world, by serial predators because priests, to whom these culprit priests, parents, teachers or other persons sacramentally ...