A federal judge sided with Catholic priests, blocking a Washington law that targeted the confidentiality of confession.

Clergy must still tell authorities of potential mistreatment, but will not have to divulge information they hear in ...

A confessional is seen in a file photo. Washington state’s government and its Catholic bishops reached an agreement Oct. 10, ...

I have plenty of Catholic guilt to keep my brain occupied, without adding my Angelus-induced chanting into the mix ...

Aggie Catholics held Mass outside the Administration Building on Thursday, Oct. 9, before leading a eucharistic procession ...

Like many priests, Father Joe, 55, often drives to hospitals, nursing homes and houses to administer the last rites of the ...

When King Frederick the Great once visited a prison, he found every inmate pleading innocence—except one. “Your Majesty,” said a lone prisoner, “I am guilty and deserve my punishment.” ...

You don’t have to play Jesus on TV to be Jesus to the world around you. And we can do this by making the Eucharist part of ...

A lawsuit filed to block that expansion says that reporting anything said in confession is a religious rights violation.

There is a scene in the 2008 film “Doubt,” set in a 1964 Catholic grade school, where the priest told a story about a woman ...

One supporter of the law, a member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, called the court decision "a ...