Right off the bat, it’s important to point out that the Catholic Church takes privacy in the confessional very seriously. The Church is commissioned by Christ to give the faithful — especially those ...

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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 ...

The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday, and some Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines outside the confessional. The faithful across the United States are ...

You’d think Catholics would be on their best behavior waiting to go to confession, but they aren’t always. Our pastor missed confessions before the Mass one Wednesday night and stayed to hear ...

What I said to the priest at my last confession is none of your business. It also wasn’t that interesting, so you didn’t miss much. In the usual way of this Catholic sacrament, it started with an ...

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 ...

Gold crosses and statues adorn confessional rooms at St. Michael Archangel Catholic Church in Houston, on April 13, 2019. (Credit: Wong Maye-E/AP.) Listen The Lenten period for penance started this ...