The Department of Justice (really struggling with not putting “justice” in scare-quotes here) claims that making clergy ... or community’s religious beliefs. Because Confession is a Catholic sacrament ...

It claims that the Catholic Church is behind the New World ... found at the local public or university library. The following quotes were cited from Early Christian Writings (Penguin Classics ...

Roman Catholic bishops from the state of Washington have filed a lawsuit challenging a new law that forces them to violate ...

In the lawsuit, filed in federal district court, the bishops emphasize the Catholic Church’s commitment to child protection ...

Washington is targeting the Roman Catholic Church in a brazen act of religious discrimination,’ the lawsuit states.

Confession, the Catholic and Orthodox practice of listing one’s sins in the presence of a priest who then offers absolution and is sworn to secrecy under pain of eternal damnation, has long been ...

The measure, signed by the governor, could lead to clergy being excommunicated, fined and incarcerated.

Catholic leaders in Seattle, Spokane, and Yakima have filed a federal lawsuit against state officials. They say a newly passed law violates their first amendment rights. It requires clergy members to ...

Catholic clergy members in Washington may be forced to choose between excommunication or disobeying the government because of a recently signed law that requires them to break the seal of confession ...

Yet the privilege in play when a Catholic makes a sacramental confession to a priest is of an even higher order because it protects communications that occur between penitential sinners and the ...

The Catholic bishops of Washington state are resisting a new law signed by Democratic Governor Bob Ferguson that they say would violate the seal of confession, which would result in ...

A prominent Catholic priest has revealed how he heard the confession of a man before he was shot dead and secretly buried by the IRA more than 50 years ago. Fr Sean McManus, who is based in ...