EDITORIAL: It’s long-standing and settled law in the U.S. that priest-penitent discussions are privileged private ...

Catholics are putting church over state when it comes to a new law requiring priests to report confessions about child abuse ...

Colombo High Court Judge Sanjeewa Nissanka ordered that the examination of evidence against eight accused, indicted over the X-Press Pearl disaster, can resume on May 15. The case had been held up due ...

But I would like especially to note a dimension of Bonhoeffer’s thought of which he himself was a magnificent example: conscience. David DeCosse (Santa Clara University) In the last years in the ...

The cross-examination of Captain Philip Seekoei is expected to continue on Thursday in the Western Cape High Court, as defence advocate Nobahle Mkabayi challenges the legality of a confession made ...

PHOENIX — Day three of the Lori Daybell murder conspiracy trial began with a cross-examination of retired homicide detective, Daniel Coons, on the stand. Daybell is accused of conspiring to kill ...

It takes people of conscience to acknowledge that we made a terrible mistake. We are nothing as a nation if we are not people of conscience. Time to exercise it and purge the cancer.

An amendment to the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act was signed into law by former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner in 2016 and was vehemently opposed by Catholic and anti-abortion groups.

The Penance Service includes Scripture readings, an examination of conscience, brief individual confession and absolution, communal penance, and a concluding proclamation of praise. Priest ...

There are many guides to making a good confession, and all of them centre on the actions of the penitent. The examination of conscience is not to give God ammunition against you. A good examination of ...