You know, being a priest and all. God is in people, he says. Which means, God is also in sex. Daniels loves love. He seeks it in everything he does, he tells me, but especially in people. It’s part of ...

The bill would amend state law to require clergy to report instances of child abuse with no exemption for instances where the ...

The state senator who introduced the measure says she cannot ‘stomach any argument about religious freedom being more ...

assuring the faithful that clergy “are committed to keeping the seal of confession — even to the point of going to jail.” “The sacrament of penance is sacred and will remain that way in ...

The priest must and does refuse absolution to a penitent when he thinks the penitent is not rightly disposed for the Sacrament. He sometimes postpones the absolution till the next confession ...

Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the church's primary legal code, one expert told OSV News. Monta ...

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Schuster said he supports the effort to make clergy mandated reporters but said including confession in the language of the law, is a violation of their freedom of religion. "This is a sacrament ...