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

Democratic state Senator Noel Frame sponsored a bill requiring priests to report any alleged child abuse they hear about ...

The pontiff said he would face up to "the questions, concerns and challenges of today’s world" and, in a nod to conservatives ...

Budget initiatives to cut federal funding for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are facing ...

Bishop Thomas Paprocki, Bishop Kevin Rhoades, and Father Thomas Ferguson will join advisory board for President Trump’s ...

To this way of thinking, what makes a faithful Christian is not the universal confession of faith and the lifelong struggle ...

A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV. More ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Leo ...

Dartmouth President Sian Beilock told alumni on Tuesday the college is pushing back on what she called “government overreach” by the Trump administration, including joining three lawsuits ...

McTighe said. (Courtesy of Gerd Altmann) Even though Church and government officials have raised alarms for decades about affinity fraud in Utah, law enforcement officials have reported several ...

ABC's Linsey Davis spoke with Episcopal Bishop Sean Rowe about his church ending its relationship with the government after President Donald Trump's administration granted 59 white South African ...

Republicans have described the tool as wasteful and an example of government overreach. If Republicans on Capitol Hill get their way, the IRS's free direct tax-filing tool is going away for good.