The Department of Justice had lent its support to Catholic leaders who said the new law would force them to choose between ...

Roman Catholic clergy and the DOJ are pushing back against a state law slated to take effect this month, arguing it will ...

Catholic priests in Washington cannot be required to report child abuse or neglect they learn of in confession, a federal ...

A federal judge in Tacoma on Friday blocked a law that would have required priests to break penitent privilege to report ...

The State arguably could have chosen a less restrictive means of advancing its interest in protecting children from abuse and ...

Lawyers representing the Catholic bishops of Washington have asked a federal judge to block the state's recently passed ...

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 ...

A judge halted a Washington law from taking effect that would compel clergy to report child abuse or neglect, no matter how ...

Seminaries are at the healthiest point they have been in for decades in terms of culture and quality of priestly formation, ...

A federal judge has ruled to temporarily block a Washington state law that would force clergy members to report child abuse, ...

The state law requires Catholic priests to report any suspicions about potential child abuse, including information disclosed during sacramental confession.

"The text of the bill and its legislative history arguably evince the intentional abrogation of a practice that the ...