Catholic leaders in Washington have sued the state over a new law requiring clergy to report suspected child abuse, including details potentially revealed during confession. The lawsuit, filed last ...

The Catholic Church has announced that priests will be excommunicated if they obey a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement. The ...

Survivors of abuse by clergy members are defending a new Washington law against accusations from the U.S. Department of Justice that it is “anti-Catholic” and worthy of a federal investigation. Signed ...

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A group of Catholic bishops and priests in Washington state filed a federal lawsuit Thursday, challenging a new Washington law requiring priests to report suspected child abuse or neglect shared ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an inquiry into a new Washington law, signed by Gov. Bob Ferguson on May 2, that adds clergy to the list of professionals required to report child abuse or ...

A Catholic priest who worked in Orlando churches for more than a decade faces sexual abuse accusations from sheriff’s investigators and a lawsuit that accuses him of grooming and then abusing a child ...