One particularly hilarious/strange [delete as appropriate] example is the “Text With Jesus” app, which allows users to engage ...

The Trump administration secured a victory for the confidentiality of the confessional booth as a federal judge temporarily blocked a recently-enacted anti-child abuse statute in Washington state. In ...

In Etienne v. Ferguson, the Archdiocese of Seattle and the dioceses of Spokane and Yakima argued that the new law violated ...

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 ...

According to a rumor spreading online in summer 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration does not think clergy should have to report child abuse. Confession is a rite sacred to Catholics in ...

St. Francis de Sales Oratory on Friday, Dec. 4, 2015 in St. Louis. Photo by Huy Mach, [email protected] ST. LOUIS • A century-old door to a confessional booth that was stolen last week was ...