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 ...

Confession, the Catholic and Orthodox practice of listing one’s sins in the presence of a priest who then offers absolution and is sworn to secrecy under pain of eternal damnation, has long been a ...

A federal judge sided with Catholic priests, blocking a Washington law that targeted the confidentiality of confession.

A motion filed in federal district court Oct. 10 affirmed that state and local governments would stop attempting to require ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

Clergy must still tell authorities of potential mistreatment, but will not have to divulge information they hear in ...

A confessional is seen in a file photo. Washington state’s government and its Catholic bishops reached an agreement Oct. 10, ...

Washington has abandoned its effort to force Catholic priests and other religious leaders to divulge information on child ...