Tag: Confession

My faith formation class -- mostly eight-year-olds -- has watched this amazing video several times. It's short, and shows a man rummaging around in...

Priests in Tasmania and Victoria will now face possible jail terms if they do not report information regarding child sexual abuse made during the...

More and more secular women are discovering that they can use technology to track their natural biomarkers, helping them make informed choices about their...

A couple of weeks ago, Natasha Marsh wrote a story highlighting a current review likely to recommend abolishing the Seal of Confession in the...

Australian Attorneys-General consider removing confessional privilege The Council of Australian Attorneys-General has moved to consider introducing laws across the nation legally requiring priests to break...

https://youtu.be/fPyOuQifQpQ Absolute secrecy of the Confessional In the light of "a worrying negative prejudice" against the Catholic Church, Pope Francis ordered the publication of a document...

https://youtu.be/pUtHTYSDjRc Conversion in the Confessional For centuries, the Catholic Church has maintained that what a penitent says to a priest in the confessional is strictly confidential,...

Priests in Western Australia will soon have to report information about child sexual abuse gained under confession under changes to the state’s mandatory reporting...

Adult converts sometimes sheepishly admit that confession scares them. What they may not know is cradle Catholics often feel the same way. Very often,...

Recent changes to child protection laws in the ACT have been welcomed by the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn but the Church has cautioned...