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 ...

The Catholic Church's Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem called on regional and world leaders to end the violence in Gaza after ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

Since Russia's invasion began, more than 100 religious leaders and activists have faced persecution for opposing the war.