A priest cannot violate his mission to reconcile sinners to God through the sacrament of confession without imperiling his own soul.

The Catholic Church said priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report ...

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report ...

A girl who was knocked down and hit her head when the door of a church confession box fell on her during mass has settled a ...

Catholic Church law says confession must be done ... animated Jesus sits on the priest’s side of a divider in a confessional booth, according to The Guardian. The image of Jesus is powered ...

Catholic priests are pushing back against a new Washington state law that requires clergy to report child abuse to law enforcement.

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report ...

By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham covers faith and religion. The secrecy of the confessional in the Roman Catholic Church is so sacrosanct that any priest who violates it is automatically excommunicated.