Joining the Pope, Catholic clergy around the country offered prayers for the deceased and condolences for victims’ loved ones ...

A school that fosters children’s lives of faith as well as gives them a truly Catholic education is a blessing.

Senate Bill 5375 would require priests and other clergy to report child abuse and neglect. Washington State Senator Noel ...

Noel Frame introduced a third bill to mandate clergy to report abuse revealed under the seal of confession or in pastoral counseling ... 27 email to OSV News that she had revised the text of the bill ...

Confession is the telling of our sins to a ... The chief means by which we satisfy God for the temporal punishment due to sin are: Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving; all spiritual and corporal works ...

After the customary greetings, the penitent crosses himself: "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen." The priest urges the penitent to have confidence in God.

Mathieu Lours, a religious architecture specialist, highlights that Notre Dame has always served three functions, including offering a "collective experience" of beauty, without hindering its role as ...

The Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, offers instructions about celebrating a Jubilee every 50 years.

Depending on when this question was asked through the different stages of my life, my answer would have varied. At times, I might have said I was born into it; at other times, I might have said I didn ...

The Washington State Legislature is considering a bill to make clergy members in the state mandatory reporters of child abuse ...

A bid is being made to turn former Celtic player and manager, ex-Kilmarnock manager and former Scotland assistant coach Tommy Burns into a saint ...

Special events at Southern Tier parishes noted the March for Life, Jubilee Year 2025, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and ...