Something happened behind closed doors that shifted an entire community’s understanding of accountability — and it started ...

In regard to specific U.S. Supreme Court cases regarding education, most Americans surveyed agreed with the rulings. The research found there was a four-point rise from 69% in 2024 to 73% in 2025 in ...

In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take place in an apparent Eden (the cozy village, the ivied college, the country ...

Following are NCR reader responses to recent news articles, opinion columns and theological essays with letters that have been edited for length and clarity. The state of confession The article on the ...

Since 2010, film fans have celebrated November as “Noirvember,” challenging each other to dig into the film noir genre. Noir, which had its Hollywood heyday in the 1940s and ’50s, featured morally ...

Washington state's government and its Catholic bishops reached an agreement Oct. 10 in a federal lawsuit over the state's mandatory reporter law they said could force priests to violate the seal of ...

Washington will not require clergy to report suspected child abuse or neglect learned through confession or privileged conversations, following a legal settlement announced Friday. The settlement ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state reached an agreement on Friday that will allow an exception for clergy members within the state's mandatory reporting law. The Washington State Attorney General's ...

SEATTLE — Washington state has dropped its efforts to require clergy to report child abuse or neglect when the information is revealed during the rite of confession, but left other provisions intact, ...

Some March for Life Attendees Disillusioned by Administration’s Soft Approach on Abortion ‘Unilateral Surrender’: Trump’s TikTok Deal Leaves China in the Driver’s Seat, National-Security Hawks Warn ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...