(RNS) — After Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte issued a pastoral letter outlining that Catholics are ...

A new Arizona bill seeks to force priests and pastors to break their seal of confession if they learn about a case of child ...

NCR readers respond to articles about the state of the sacrament of reconciliation, the appointment of Archbishop Hicks and ...

Under the bill, failure to disclose such information by a priest could be prosecuted as a class 6 felony. This carries ...

“The whole world tries to define us,” said the bishop. “God takes our brokenness and uses it for his greater glory.” The ...

Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic Church's first ever American leader, appears to signal a more inclusive leadership style than his ...

In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take ...

“When I think about a vocational call, I think of two things: First, God is the one who calls, and it is always a call of ...

NCR interviews James O'Toole, whose new book, For I Have Sinned, details the growth and eventual decline of confession in the ...

On New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, and the first day of 2026, the Catholic Church offers the opportunity to obtain plenary ...

Catholicism is hot right now. The new American pope is popular for speaking his mind on political subjects such as AI and the ...

Washington state's government and its Catholic bishops reached an agreement Oct. 10 in a federal lawsuit over the state's mandatory reporter law they said could force priests to violate the seal of ...