Father Lawrence C. Goode hears confession May 8, 2019, at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in East Palo Alto, Calif. (Credit: Chaz Muth/CNS.) Listen WASHINGTON, D.C. — For centuries, the Catholic ...

A Northern California taqueria under investigation for wage theft brought in a priest to get workers to “confess” about sins they had committed in the workplace, according to the U.S. Department of ...

OAKLAND - Bishop Michael Barber, S.J., of the Diocese of Oakland, California, has said he would sooner accept arrest and prison than comply with a state law that would force priests to violate the ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Saying that “confession is sacred to every priest and every Catholic,” Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez is calling on Catholics to tell their state senators to vote “no” on a ...

A California restaurant has been ordered to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to 35 employees after the business hired a person they said was a priest to get workers to confess to “workplace sins ...

Owners of a restaurant in California are paying approximately $140,000 in back wages and damages to 35 employees after trying to use a "supposed" priest to have them confess their "workplace sins." ...

Visitors were invited to pose questions to the AI Jesus, viewed on a monitor behind a latticework screen. (Courtesy of the Catholic Church of the City of Lucerne, CC BY) This autumn, a Swiss Catholic ...

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled in November that Msgr. Michael Lenihan must testify as to whether someone came to him for confession. The move has raised new questions about how ...