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

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

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

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

The Catholic Church said priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report ...

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

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.

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

Two women abused by a paedophile priest in the 1970s are pursuing the Catholic Church for compensation, but a High Court ...

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