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

A priest’s confession, a man’s relief. Damian Eckert, left, and brother Bob, shown at Old Mission Santa Barbara, say they were among boys molested by a priest at St. Anthony’s Seminary.

June 1, 2012— -- The lurid confessions of a priest who sexually abused young boys in his parish choir and the seminary offer a glimpse into one of the minds behind the massive sex abuse ...

The law requires Catholic priests to break the confessional seal to report information about suspected child abuse or neglect ...

The Department of Justice is suing the state of Washington over a law that compels priests to reveal certain information they ...

Liam Neeson’s Catholic guilt got the better of him. The Irish actor, 71, made a startling confession to a priest when he was a teenager — and he now claims it led the man of the cloth to ...

Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune The Rev. Justin Havens hears confession prior to worship service at Saints Peter & Paul Orthodox Christian Church, Sunday, April 30, 2017.

Priests are required to report child abuse or neglect to Washington state law enforcement after learning about the crime through confessions. Latest U.S.

Feit, a former priest, is accused of suffocating Irene Garza in April 1960, after she went to confession at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen. “So I asked Father Feit, why are you here and ...

— -- A priest from St. Christopher Parish in Rocky River, Ohio, says he was shaken up after he had to give confession to a man who held him at gunpoint for the entirety of the sacrament. "He ...

DETROIT — Catholic priest Timothy Kane had a sexual relationship with a Michigan prison inmate, and embezzled money from the Archdiocese of Detroit's Angel Fund charity to get money for the ...

Although the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, a Rome neighborhood, is open March 18, 2020, the confessionals are empty because they do not allow the priest and penitent to stay 3 feet apart ...