Exiles in the Amazon
This woman religious missionary helps make the lives of Venezuelan refugees in Brazil a little easier.
Amazon culture and faith in song
A village poet in Guyana sings a song that tells the story of the Amazon; he wants people at the Vatican to hear it as they prepare for October’s Synod…
Quest to uphold the seal of confession
The Catholic Church considers confidentiality in the confessional inviolable and has resisted governmental intrusion of the sacrament of penance for centuries. This documentary shows how the struggle continues in the…
Top priority: Clergy sex abuse crisis
The U.S. bishops undertook various matters during their 2019 spring assembly in Baltimore that weren’t related to the clergy sexual abuse crisis, but they said the scandal had to be…
U.S. bishops address clergy sex abuse
The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference opens the bishops’ spring assembly in Baltimore by vowing to adopt procedures that would tackle the clerical sexual abuse scandals.
Sex abuse survivors lobby bishops
Members of clergy sex abuse survivor groups stood out in front of the Baltimore hotel where the U.S. bishops were holding their spring assembly and called on them to adopt…
Bishops’ mission to restore trust
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston compared the early church missions of Barnabas and Paul to the modern-era mission of restoring trust following the clerical sexual abuse crisis in his…
Reporting set up for bishop sex abuse
The U.S. bishops overwhelmingly approved the establishment of a national third-party reporting hotline for when bishops are accused of sexual abuse.
Bishop talks sex abuse impact and hope
Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles expresses concern over the impact of the clergy sexual abuse crisis on Catholics during the U.S. bishops’ spring assembly in Baltimore, but…
Priests unlikely to obey confession laws
Priests say they would go to jail, or worse, to protect the seal of confession.
Priest & Penitent: How confession works
These priests and penitents take us through the inner workings of a sacred and confidential confession.
He died protecting confession’s seal
St. John Nepomucene Church in New York is named for the 14th century martyred priest who decided torture and death was a price worth paying for not violating the seal…