Washington passed a law becoming one of just a few states that not only requires clergy to report child abuse -- but make no exemption in religious settings where clergy are bound to confidentiality.

The case of a child sex offender who was on the run for three decades has led to revelations of links between paedophiles who ...

Many Christian families reported living in fear — facing threats of social boycott, electricity cuts and verbal abuse. Some have left their villages or publicly disavowed their faith to avoid conflict ...

If the law requiring clergy to report abuse were in place years ago, the epidemic of child sexual abuse could have been ...

Democrat state Senator Noel Frame sponsored a bill requiring priests to report any alleged child abuse they hear about during ...

Some see Pope Leo XIV's failure to protect victims from priests accused of abuse as 'negligence.' But that negligence destroyed lives like mine.

Survivors say Pope Leo must commit to transparency in investigations of priests accused of sexual abuse. His record on doing ...

The Rev. Richard J. McGrath was a longtime leader of Providence Catholic High School, run by the Augustinians, whose Midwest ...

Clergy abuse survivors and advocates saw vindication in the words of Bishop Joseph Williams of Camden, after he ended a legal fight.

Amid the mostly joyous reception for Robert Prevost, who stunned the world when he emerged from the loggia of St. Peter’s as ...

Washington State's new law mandating priests to divulge abuse revealed in confessions is the latest salvo in a larger dispute between the Catholic Church and multiple U.S. states.