The proposal, California Senate Bill 360, would seek to require priests to violate the sacramental seal of confession in suspected cases of child abuse or neglect.

This priest, Pico argued, would add luster to the Florentines and an air of respectability to Lorenzo. The Medici got a little more than they bargained for.

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Pope Francis has named Dominican Father Steven Maekawa, a former active duty military chaplain, as the next bishop of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Vatican announced the appointment on July 11.

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The Dominican province in Poland has started an independent, lay-led investigation of a sect-like youth ministry ran by Dominican Father “Paweł M.” between 1996-2000 in Wrocław.

He referenced psychological the­ories by Alfred Adler and theologi­cal insights from Dominican priest Massimo and Pope Francis, warn­ing against the pitfalls of vanity and spiritual isolation ...

OPINION What a rollicking band of Billboard charting bluegrass-loving friars taught me about a life of faith The music of these Dominican priests exudes an attractive happiness doubled by wonder ...

Forty-one-year-old Ângelo Nogueira, who allegedly robbed about $7.50 in coins from a Catholic rectory on May 5 and was run down by a Dominican priest afterwards, died July 27 from injuries ...

Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian priest and scholar who was regarded as the father of Latin American liberation theology, a far-reaching school of thought and action born of solidarity with poor ...

The Dominican priest was asked what practical steps could be taken to get more diocesan priests more involved in embracing or continuing the synodal process.

If California moves forward with its proposed law trying to force priests to violate the seal of Confession, it is not just Catholicism but all religions that will suffer, said a Dominican priest ...