The new law that takes effect on July 27 carries penalties of a year in jail and a $5,000 fine. It also exposes the priests ...

YAKIMA- The Rev. Msgr. Robert M. Siler, Episcopal Vicar and Moderator of the Curia for the Diocese of Yakima, has released ...

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into the law, calling it "anti-Catholic." The bishops say it would ...

A new state law requires priests to report suspected child abuse, even if they hear the information in confessional.

The dispute revolves around a state law that requires priests to report allegations of sexual abuse heard during confession.

The Catholic bishops of Washington state filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a new law that requires priests to report child ...

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Catholic Charities, saying Wisconsin violated the First Amendment by denying the group a ...

Washington’s leading Catholic bishops filed a lawsuit Thursday contending the new state law requiring religious leaders to ...

The Supreme Court has handed down a unanimous ruling in a religious rights case, finding a Catholic charity in Wisconsin ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday endorsed a bid by an arm of a Catholic diocese in Wisconsin for a religious exemption from ...

Since the late pontiff addressed his words to a national conference of the Italian Catholic Church almost a decade ago, the ...

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