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

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

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

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

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

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

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

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.

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