The Catholic Church is pushing back against a new law that was rushed through the legislature by Democrats over concerns of clergy, requiring priests to break the confidentiality of confession.

Forgive me father, for I’m a sim. An AI priest was defrocked just days after its inception after the chatbot repeatedly claimed to users that it was a real member of the clergy and performed ...

The 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film “I Confess,” based on an earlier play, features a priest suspected of murder. He’s innocent, and has even heard the murderer’s confession – but cannot clear his own name ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Catholic Church and federal government reacted vehemently to new legislation in Washington state that requires priests to ...

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 ...

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 ...