NEW YORK / ROME — In a much-anticipated response to Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the Australian Catholic Church has announced it will comply with 98 ...

Right off the bat, it’s important to point out that the Catholic Church takes privacy in the confessional very seriously. The Church is commissioned by Christ to give the faithful — especially those ...

To protect the sacrament of reconciliation as a "channel of grace" for victims of sexual abuse, the Catholic Church must do a better job instructing priests on what to do if a victim recounts his or ...

What can a person do when put in an impossible position, when caught between the demands of the state on the one hand and God and his Church on the other? In some jurisdictions Catholic priests are ...

The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has just released its Criminal Justice Report in which it deals with many matters relating to the way child sexual ...

To protect the sacrament of reconciliation as a "channel of grace" for victims of sexual abuse, the Catholic Church must do a better job of instructing priests on what to do if a victim recounts his ...

In recent months, the Australian Catholic Church has been in the spotlight, primarily due to news that the former Archbishop of Sydney and the pope’s current finance minister, Cardinal George Pell, ...

If walls could talk, Ambrose Sonnek would have heard some interesting tales when he restored a 123-year-old church confessional this summer. The confessional, now a display cabinet, was the same one ...