Pope Leo XIV has closed the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, officially ending the Catholic Church's Jubilee ...

WILMINGTON, Del. (OSV News)—The Delaware General Assembly is taking aim at a basic tenet of the Catholic Church and wants to break the seal of confession between a priest and penitent. House Bill 74 ...

In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen: “Forgive me, father, for I have sinned.” This drama was, for centuries, at the center of ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II heard confessions from 11 Catholics on Good Friday in St. Peter's Basilica, keeping up a tradition in a Holy Week marked by security concerns in tourist-filled Rome.