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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, said he expects repercussions against the church for being outspoken in defense of ...

Democratic delegates, when compared to Democratic voters, ranked government overreach and crime as less important. In conclusion, the report said that even though delegates tend to be more ...