An advertisement on a public bus reads “End clergy sex abuse now,” with an image of a silhouette of a priest in a Roman collar and a phone number for a lawyer. It’s open season on priests, and there ...

An Irish bishop apologized for a priest’s homily that described abortion and homosexual acts as examples of sinful behavior. Bishop Ray Browne of Kerry published an apology on Nov. 1 for “the deep ...

If you've never used a confessional, you’ve no doubt seen one in a movie or television show — it's when you step into a wooden stall at church and proceed to confess your sins to a priest in the hopes ...

How important is it for priests to avoid the sin of scandal, whether it be through sinful actions, hypocrisy or spreading false doctrine? In a chapter entitled “The Sin of Scandal” in his book The ...

"I just had the worst confession ever. I confessed a sexual sin, something I haven't confessed in a long time, and the priest ... asked me if I was a toy," Zuri Davis wrote on Twitter Oct. 17 about ...

An Irish-born priest spoke out against celibacy in the priesthood in the final days of his life. A priest born in County Kerry has used his final words to question the compulsory celibacy undertaken ...

A Northern California taqueria under investigation for wage theft brought in a priest to get workers to “confess” about sins they had committed in the workplace, according to the U.S. Department of ...

“Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been 31 years and I have never practiced confession.” If I had followed the traditional formula, perhaps that is what I would have said to the priest who ...