The state law, in Washington, applies to all religions but has outraged Catholics in particular. The Justice Department is ...

Priests are required to report child abuse or neglect to Washington state law enforcement after learning about the crime ...

Washington State's new law mandating priests to divulge abuse revealed in confessions is the latest salvo in a larger dispute ...

The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring ...

A high-profile celebrity priest named as a child abuser in a recent report by the Jesuits also fathered a secret child, the ...

When Cardinal Robert Prevost was in the first grade, his neighbor told him he would be the first American pope, his brother ...

The new pope, Chicago area native Robert Prevost, has faced criticism for not doing more to encourage his religious order, ...

The warning comes after the state’s Democrat governor signs a law requiring clergy to report child abuse they hear about in ...

POPE LEO XIV played at being a priest as a child and used the family’s ironing board as an altar, his brother has revealed.

Catholics are putting church over state when it comes to a new law requiring priests to report confessions about child abuse ...

Six weeks before American Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the activist group Survivors Network of those Abused ...

We look forward to protecting Washington kids from sexual abuse,” Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson told McClatchy News.