Q: Recently I went to confession on Saturday afternoon before my parish's vigil Mass. The priest told me to say a rosary for ...

A: The short answer is no; you didn’t do anything wrong by receiving holy Communion before completing your penance.

A Catholic priest listens to a confession as faithful and tourists visit the St. John Lateran Basilica, in Rome, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Confession, the Catholic and ...

Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee has stripped one of his priests of the faculty to hear confessions following the clergyman’s public support for civil laws mandating that priests break the seal ...

Bills currently under consideration in the Washington and Vermont legislatures would make all clergy in the state mandatory reporters of sexual abuse and would remove so-called clergy-penitent ...

A Catholic priest at a North Carolina diocese has been accused of ambushing high school girls with what their parents call “unexpected” and “inappropriate” questions about sex while he was hearing ...

It was unholy behavior. The owner of a California taqueria chain have been ordered to pay $70,000 in damages to employees who met with a “person identified as a priest” to confess workplace sins.

A Missouri Catholic priest was found guilty by the church of soliciting sex from an adult during a confession, church officials announced. Father Ignazio Medina, a priest with the Diocese of Jefferson ...