Priests are required to report child abuse or neglect to Washington state law enforcement after learning about the crime ...

A priest cannot violate his mission to reconcile sinners to God through the sacrament of confession without imperiling his own soul.

A Washington state lawmaker has called on the Catholic Church to change its centuries-old confessional policy so that priests ...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation into the law new law signed by Washington ...

The warning comes after the state’s Democrat governor signs a law requiring clergy to report child abuse they hear about in confession.

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report information about child abuse to law enforcement — even if given in the ...

The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring ...

The Catholic Church is against a new law that was pushed through by Democrats requiring priests to break the confidentiality ...

The Supreme Court of India agreed Monday to consider a petition that the requirement of annual confession in the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church violates its members' privacy rights. Three ...