A Milwaukee priest has been urging state legislators to repeal the clergy-penitent privilege in mandatory reporting laws that exempt Catholic priests from notifying authorities of any sexual abuse ...

“Psychoanalysis is old stuff to the Catholics, of course. Only they do it on their knees for free, instead of on a couch at $10 an hour.” This easy assumption that the Roman Catholic Sacrament of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: The Lionfish Group The Confessional (2009) is a psychological thriller film. It follows a sculptor who targets the ...

What can a person do when put in an impossible position, when caught between the demands of the state on the one hand and God and his Church on the other? In some jurisdictions Catholic priests are ...

The nation is rightly frustrated over the failure to get to the bottom of the Jeffrey Epstein child sexual abuse network. Any child abuser or accomplice should be swiftly brought to justice. The ...

Countless Catholics on social media have shared experiences of harm by priests in the confessional booth — verbal and spiritual abuse, sexism, inappropriate conduct and out-of-touch priestly counsel.

Five years ago, in Langenberg, West Germany, a teen-age butcher’s apprentice confessed to a Roman Catholic priest that he had murdered an eight-year-old boy. During the confession, and in subsequent ...

California state Sen. Jerry Hill introduced a bill to the state Legislature on Feb. 20 that would require Catholic priests to report child sex abuse learned about in the confessional. The clergy and ...

The California State Senate has passed a bill that would require Catholic priests to violate the seal of confession. Introduced by state Sen. Jerry Hill, the legislation applies to situations where a ...

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