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 ...

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Washington state's government and its Catholic bishops reached an agreement Oct. 10 in a federal lawsuit over the state's mandatory reporter law they said could force priests to ...

One supporter of the law, a member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, called the court decision "a ...

Image courtesy of Campus Ministry. By Anthony Curioso To kick off the schedule of events for the 2025 CUA Family Weekend, ...

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

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

The Washington State Attorney General’s Office reported on Friday that it has reached an agreement with the Catholic Church ...

On Dec. 5, 2018, while the priest was hearing confessions in the Managua cathedral, he was splashed with acid on his face and ...

The voters now have this information, and it is up to the voters to make an individual choice based on that information,’ she said.

A lawsuit filed to block that expansion says that reporting anything said in confession is a religious rights violation.