The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday and Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines ...
After the sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, there is a worldwide push to end the guarantee of secrecy of confession – called “the seal of the confessional.” On Sept. 11, 2019, two ...
How many children have been sexually abused, over time and throughout the world, by serial predators because priests, to whom these culprit priests, parents, teachers or other persons sacramentally ...
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From public confession to private penance: How Catholic confession has evolved over centuries
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 ...
The spokeswoman for France’s bishops’ conference clarified Wednesday that the country’s Catholic leaders do not intend to compromise on the Church’s teaching that the confessional seal is sacrosanct. ...
The president of the French bishops’ conference has accepted a request to discuss his recent comments about the confessional seal with the country’s interior minister. Archbishop Éric de ...
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