Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the ...

Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the church's primary legal code, one expert told OSV News. Monta ...

Two Democratic state lawmakers are trying again to require clergy members in Washington to report child abuse or neglect, ...

For the third consecutive year, the Senate Human Services Committee will hold a public hearing on SB 5375, a controversial bill that seeks to classify clergy as mandatory reporters of child abuse and ...

A group of Democratic lawmakers in Montana has introduced a bill that would require Catholic priests to disclose confessions related to serious crimes, challenging the church’s long-standing tradition ...

There is a connection between the penitent Magdalene and the many images ... handling of all those pleats and undulating folds. The Catholic Church has long embraced a link between swoon-inducing ...

A Montana bill that could compel Catholic priests to break the seal of confession is being criticized by Catholics who say it could eliminate key religious liberty protections. The proposed bill ...

The sacramental seal of confession in the Catholic Church strictly prohibits priests from sharing anything a penitent says during the sacrament of reconciliation. Any priest who “directly violates the ...

A group of Democrats in Montana introduced a bill that would require Catholic priests to disclose confessions related to serious crimes, challenging the church’s ancient tradition of maintaining the ...

Anti-Catholic bill (SB139 ... offering absolution to the penitent who is confessing sins directly to God. The crucial role of confidentiality in confession allows individuals to admit their ...