Though Pope Leo XIV has been lauded for his advocacy in defense of immigrants and worker rights—his namesake, Leo XIII, who ...

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.

Archbishop Cordileone, who has served as the San Francisco archbishop since 2012, is the third member of the Catholic ...

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 ...