George Washington’s portrait The United States’ first president, George Washington, has been on the front side of the ...

Torch Cars Catholic bishops from the State of Washington have filed a lawsuit challenging a law requiring Catholic priests to break the confessional seal to report information about suspected ...

The Catholic bishops of Washington state filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging ... by the First Amendment by infringing on the sacred seal of confession. The suit also claims the law violates ...

Washington State is attacking religion under the guise of child protection ... Now, however, the law requires priests to break the Seal of Confession, effectively criminalizing compliance with a core ...

Massachusetts’s current state seal, featuring an indigenous man underneath a sword-holding arm, may be on its way out. After a couple efforts over the past few years, officials are once again ...

The current Massachusetts state seal features a Native American man on a blue shield with a star in the corner and a disembodied arm holding a sword above. Those in support of changing the state ...

In a statement criticizing the new law, Seattle Archbishop Paul Etienne said the law violates the “seal of confession," and any priest who reports information received in confession “will be ...

Governor Bob Ferguson of Washington State recently signed ... saving power of Christ and his church.” State laws on the confessional seal can sometimes appear contradictory.

The Washington state Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on high-capacity magazine guns in a Thursday ruling, overturning a lower court order that labeled it unconstitutional. The 7-2 decision ...

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy ... “Catholic clergy may not violate the seal of confession — or they will ...