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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former New Mexico priest repeatedly sexually abused a young girl in confessional booths six decades ago claiming she was “chosen ...

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – Based on what he’s heard in the confessional amid a bitter civil war, a Catholic priest serving in his African country’s troubled southwestern region says “the Devil has unleashed ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the state of Washington Monday, June 23, over a new law requiring clergy members to report child abuse, even if the information is obtained ...

Bills currently under consideration in the Washington and Vermont legislatures would make all clergy in the state mandatory reporters of sexual abuse and would remove so-called clergy-penitent ...

A Catholic priest at a North Carolina diocese has been accused of ambushing high school girls with what their parents call “unexpected” and “inappropriate” questions about sex while he was hearing ...

Q: Recently I went to confession on Saturday afternoon before my parish's vigil Mass. The priest told me to say a rosary for ...

A Catholic priest listens to a confession as faithful and tourists visit the St. John Lateran Basilica, in Rome, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Confession, the Catholic and ...

The owners of a pair of taco restaurants in Northern California were ordered to pay $140,000 in back pay and damages to 35 employees for bringing in a purported priest to extract confessions of ...