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

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

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

The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation into the law new law signed by Washington ...

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

The Catholic Church is against a new law that was pushed through by Democrats requiring priests to break the confidentiality ...

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

A new law signed by Democratic Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson poses a danger to religious liberty and a sacred trust of ...

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

Meanwhile, the Department of Justice called the law "anti-Catholic" in a statement ... seal of confession — or they will be excommunicated from the Church," the Archdiocese said.

The Catholic Church has long sought an exception for what priests hear in a confessional and say without it the law puts them at risk of excommunication. The DOJ says the law violates the First ...