Though the judge has not issued his final ruling, he indicated he is likely to issue an injunction against Washington's law ...

Washington state's legislation requiring priests to report child abuse disclosed in confession faces opposition from bishops ...

His death made John Nepomucene, who was later canonized, the first “ martyr of the confessional ” — one of four priests ...

The Catholic religious order to which the Rev. Freddy Washington belongs says the allegations against him are ...

TACOMA, Wash. (CN) — With a Washington state law requiring clergy members to report child abuse disclosures made in sacramental confession set to take effect in just under two weeks, Catholic bishops ...

New Washington State law asks clergy to report child abuse heard in confession. Opponents say it's violating the Constitution.

Reverend Thomas Hennen was introduced Thursday as the newly chosen bishop-elect of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baker, which ...

Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy Campbell Jr., a 1965 graduate of Archbishop Carroll, was the main celebrant at George ...

The two Catholic Dioceses in Virginia released a list Wednesday naming 51 priests found by the church to have been credibly accused of sexually abusing children in ...

The dispensation is a move usually reserved for extenuating circumstances, like the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Father Thomas Hennen, vicar general of the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, has been appointed Bishop of Baker, Oregon.

At least 100 people were killed in the devastating Texas floods, and the death toll is expected to rise as dozens are still ...