The president of the French bishops’ conference has accepted a request to discuss his recent comments about the confessional seal with the country’s interior minister. Archbishop Éric de ...

PARIS, France — The president of the French bishops’ conference discussed the “clumsy wording” of his recent comments about the confessional seal with the country’s interior minister on Tuesday. In a ...

The French bishops’ conference has seemingly tried to walk back the straightforward comments of the Bishop of Reims, who recently reiterated that the inviolability of the seal of confession, deriving ...

In many Catholic churches, the sins or secrets of parishioners were whispered in a confessional, a box or booth usually at the back of the church. The confessional most often is a wooden structure, ...

Vatican News noted that the bishops’ conference statement described Darmanin’s request as an “invitation,” rather than a “summons,” as it has been widely described in media reports. Archbishop Éric de ...