Members of Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis voted Sunday to no longer display a massive embroidery depicting the first Thanksgiving and a slave ship that church leaders deemed to be ...

In the lawsuit, filed in federal district court, the bishops emphasize the Catholic Church’s commitment to child protection ...

Clearly, the church's use of public penances for centuries hardly endorses a seal of confession. Nevertheless, I realize that there are some people who hold that the seal of confession is a matter ...

Almost immediately the Catholic Church took to the media ... by again reiterating what must be the perfect argument for the seal of confession to be broken for children. The McArdle case is ...

The Vatican said it felt it was "necessary to intervene," to explain the importance of the confessional seal to the church, and to promote understanding of it. The statement came as a bill makes ...

Any priest who breaks the seal of confession is subject to the Church's most severe penalty — automatic excommunication, revocable only by the Pope. The royal commission's recommendations would ...

Provincial authorities in Zhejiang have removed the official seal of the local Christian Council after the council issued a statement demanding an end to the campaign to remove church crosses. The ...