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WA law requiring clergy to report child abuse put on hold by federal judge
The law, adopted during the 2025 legislative session, has sparked a federal lawsuit, an investigation by the Department of Justice over claims of anti-Catholic bias and vows by Catholic leadership in Seattle and Spokane that their congregations would not fully abide by the requirement.
Roman Catholic clergy and the DOJ are pushing back against a state law slated to take effect this month, arguing it will ...
"The text of the bill and its legislative history arguably evince the intentional abrogation of a practice that the ...
County prosecutors in Washington have agreed not to enforce the clergy mandated reporting law until challenges against it are ...
In 2003, amid the uproar over the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandals, several states added clergy to their child sex abuse reporting laws, often with the exception for clergy who learn ...
Pope Francis issued new global rules Thursday for reporting sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, mandating for the first time that all dioceses set up systems for reporting abuse and cover ...
In a response provided to The Associated Press, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops defended its anti-abuse efforts, which church officials say have helped reduce abuse allegations since ...
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