Two Democratic state lawmakers are trying again to require clergy members in Washington to report child abuse or neglect, including when it is disclosed to them by a congregant during confession.

There will be at least two sets of clergy praying on this Inauguration Day for Donald Trump. One will be praying for Trump and his administration, and the other will be praying that the plans he ...

(RNS) — Donald Trump, the president who doesn’t go to church, was expected to have six clergymen offer prayers at his inauguration Monday (Jan. 20), which would have equaled the record he set ...

She was robed in her liturgical vestments, the red and white rochet and chimere, used for prayer services without the Eucharist. Her academic hood signified her seminary doctorate. The black ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York and Father Frank Mann of the Diocese of Brooklyn opened and closed the prayers of invocation and benediction, respectively, at the ...

Editor's note: The Catholic Church has spent billions of dollars settling claims from sexual abuse cases. National Catholic Reporter is investigating the costs to Catholics, parishes and the ...

The new panel will decide whether to bring cases under the Clergy Discipline Measure (CDM) against individuals criticised in the Makin report. While decisions will be made by the three members, the ...

More than 20 years after the Archdiocese of Boston achieved notoriety as the epicenter of the clergy sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, aftershocks are still coming. Last week ...

At least two Tibetan monastic centres damaged by quake Unknown number of clergy hurt, monasteries affected Buddhist monasteries key to Tibet's cultural identity Some Tibetan monks in the past ...

At least two Tibetan Buddhism monastic centers were severely damaged in Tibet, with an unknown number of monks and nuns hurt, according to the few state media reports on the damage to religious ...

Washington ― Two clergy members from Metro Detroit will step onto the national stage next week when they pray at the swearing-in ceremony for President-elect Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol.

Former Florida football wide receiver Chimere Dike accepted an invite to the Reese's Senior Bowl on Monday. A transfer from Wisconsin, the 6-foot-0, 195-pound Dike ranked first on the Florida ...