The Permanent Council of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has expressed shock over the proposition of a bill that ...

In Etienne v. Ferguson, the Archdiocese of Seattle and the dioceses of Spokane and Yakima argued that the new law violated ...

Washington has abandoned its effort to force Catholic priests and other religious leaders to divulge information on child ...

A federal judge sided with Catholic priests, blocking a Washington law that targeted the confidentiality of confession.

“Priests have been imprisoned, tortured, and even killed for upholding the seal of confession,” the state Catholic conference ...

Catholic and Washington state officials reached an agreement allowing priests to keep the seal of confession without threat of penalty under the law.

Washington state has agreed not to force Catholic priests to report confessions of abuse, putting an end to a legal battle ...

Clergy must still tell authorities of potential mistreatment, but will not have to divulge information they hear in ...

Pope Leo XIV recognized the martyrdom of nine Polish Salesian priests killed by the Nazis and two Czech priests killed by ...

In May, the state Legislature passed a bill requiring clergy to report child abuse, bringing Washington in line with most of the rest of the country after previous efforts to ...

A federal court on Friday sided with Catholic priests in Washington state seeking to preserve the confidentiality of ...

A confessional is seen in a file photo. Washington state’s government and its Catholic bishops reached an agreement Oct. 10, ...