BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian court ruled that a Roman Catholic priest cannot use the secrecy of confession as a defense when it convicted a clergyman in Bruges on Monday of failing to seek help for ...

So much of online discourse is toxic. Cloaked in anonymity, trolls and bullies and liars have made much of the web a hell-scape. But it doesn’t have to be that way. PostSecret is proof. The community ...

The Arizona Supreme Court has upheld the right of clergy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to keep private statements made in confession secret, even when a church member confesses to ...

The French bishops’ conference has seemingly tried to walk back the straightforward comments of the Bishop of Reims, who recently reiterated that the inviolability of the seal of confession, deriving ...

For decades the greatest film by French writer-director Philippe Garrel has been one of the hardest to see. Garrel completed L’Enfant Secret in 1979 but didn’t exhibit it until 1982, because, ...

There’s something intriguing about hearing other people’s secrets and untold stories. A confession is simply a formal acknowledgment of guilt. It is not always connected to a crime or a particular ...

The suit of one Gladys Sundseth of Minneapolis for a divorce from her husband Arnold has assumed large significance in the annals of the Lutheran Church. Called as a witness at the hearings last ...