In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take ...

Under the legislation, priests and pastors would be forced to report child abuse if they have a reasonable suspicion “to ...

A new bill before the Arizona House of Representatives could force priests and pastors to break their seal of confession. The ...

A proposed law in Arizona could see priests facing felony charges if they fail to break the seal of confession after learning ...

Under the bill, failure to disclose such information by a priest could be prosecuted as a class 6 felony. This carries ...

NCR interviews James O'Toole, whose new book, For I Have Sinned, details the growth and eventual decline of confession in the ...

NCR readers respond to articles about the state of the sacrament of reconciliation, the appointment of Archbishop Hicks and ...

Archbishop Coakley recalled waking up the next morning “and went to the local church on the island for Mass, and after Mass, ...

Martha Patricia Molina, a Nicaraguan lawyer and Catholic researcher, urged the U.S. Commission on International Religious ...

Nigerian-born pastor at St. Michael church in Plain Twp. welcomes 2 Filipino priests as diocese shores up its church ...

An American nun looks back at the Jubilee Year spent working in the Bishops’ Office for United States Visitors to the Vatican.

COMMENTARY: A journey across Eastern and Southern Africa revealed the Gospel lived with freshness and zeal — a sign of where ...