The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, representing over 500 Roman Catholic priests and deacons from the U.S., Australia, and the United Kingdom, has issued a statement defending the inviolability of ...

50% of U.S. Catholic adults in our 2025 survey say they pray daily. 28% say they go to Mass weekly. 7 23% say they go to confession at least once a year. 8 In total, 13% of U.S. Catholics say they ...

The Catholic bishops of Washington state filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a new law that requires priests to report child abuse learned during the sacrament of confession.

Priests will be excommunicated by the Catholic Church if they follow the law. Under Senate Bill 5375, Washington Democrats ripped out the “clergy privilege” exemption in Washington’s child ...

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.

Pope Leo XIV became the newest pope to sit in the highest office in the Catholic Church, and the first American to do so, after a lifetime of service in both Chicago and Peru.

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 ...

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The Trump administration is investigating a Washington law that would require Catholic priests to break the seal of confession to report information related to child abuse.

Ahead of the Jay & Pamela Season 1 finale, TLC shared an exclusive clip from the bride and groom's "first look" wedding moment—and Jay made a bold declaration in the process. Fans of the reality ...

ROME, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 30, 2015: a boy performing catholic confession at the basilica Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Alamy Stock Photo ...