The state law, in Washington, applies to all religions but has outraged Catholics in particular. The Justice Department is ...

Catholic priests in Washington State may risk either excommunication or jail time as a result of a new child abuse reporting ...

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

Washington State's new law mandating priests to divulge abuse revealed in confessions is the latest salvo in a larger dispute ...

The Archdiocese of Seattle is taking a stand against a recently passed Washington State law that would force priests to ...

EDITORIAL: It’s long-standing and settled law in the U.S. that priest-penitent discussions are privileged private ...

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating an “anti-Catholic law” in Washington state that ...

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

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

A new law signed by Democratic Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson poses a danger to religious liberty and a sacred trust of ...

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

God the Father, knowing his children will still be prone to reject him, also sent the Son to give us the Holy Spirit through the sacrament of reconciliation. To give a proper perspective on the ...