Washington moved to close a dangerous loophole. Now there’s a constitutional showdown pitting religious freedoms against the ...

A move to require clergy to report child abuse even when it is revealed during the sacrament of confession is in sharp ...

A federal judge has halted a Washington state law that required Catholic priests to break the seal of confession. The law ...

In May, Washington’s Democratic governor, Bob Ferguson, signed a bill into law that requires clergy members to report such abuse and neglect if they learn of it during confession. However, the ...

Clergy members will not have to choose between their vocation and jail time, for now.

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

Pope Leo XIV pledged to work to “pursue the path of unity and fraternal charity” in a meeting in Castel Gandolfo with ...

South of Ukraine's Donetsk region, two Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests were seized from their church in Berdiansk in November of 2022, one of whom now appears to have been illegally transferred ...

Priests in the Christian West Bank town of Taybeh have called for an immediate and transparent investigation following a series of alleged attacks by Jewish settlers, including a fire set near an ...