Washington joins six other states in denying privilege for confidential communications about sexual abuse in the confessional ...

The law might lead to Orthodox priests getting kicked out of the priesthood if they comply with it.

Officials with Orthodox Churches in the United States have filed a lawsuit against a Washington state measure requiring ...

More than 20 years after claims of child sexual abuse rocked the Catholic Church, states are still figuring out who can be ...

President Donald Trump will depart the G7 summit in Canada to Washington on Monday night, a day earlier than planned, due to ...

New court filings show several Orthodox churches and a priest are suing the state of Washington and Governor Bob Ferguson over a newly implemented law that requires ...

New Jersey can have a grand jury examine allegations of clergy sexually abusing children, the state's Supreme Court ruled ...

Democratic state attorneys general on Friday will seek to block President Donald Trump's proposal for a sweeping overhaul of ...

Washington’s leading Catholic bishops filed a lawsuit Thursday contending the new state law requiring religious leaders to report child abuse or neglect, even when it is disclosed in confession, is ...

Catholic leaders in Washington have sued the state over a new law requiring clergy ... The lawsuit, filed last week on behalf of the bishops, alleges Senate Bill 5375, which was signed into ...

Washington state's bishops filed a lawsuit May 29 over a new law requiring clergy to report child abuse or neglect without exceptions for clergy-penitent privilege. First reported by Th ...