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

Confession, the Catholic and Orthodox practice of listing one’s ... engaged in a wholesale persecution of the Catholic Church, enacting numerous anti-clerical laws and precipitating a conflict ...

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

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 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 ...

In 1215, a new church document mandated that every Catholic go to confession and receive Holy Communion at least once a year. Priests who revealed the identity of any penitent faced severe penalties.