For nearly twenty years, some state lawmakers have tried to remove Washington State from the list of five that do not require ...

Senate Bill 5375 would require priests and other clergy to report child abuse and neglect. Washington State Senator Noel ...

Archbishop Jose Palma confirmed that three priests remain in active ministry, one incardinated in another diocese, one has ...

While most states include clergy on the list of mandated reporters, Washington is one of few states where they're not ...

While clergy are often mandatory reporters outside of the confessional, long-standing legal precedent in the U.S. recognizes ...

A group of Democrats in Montana introduced a bill that would require Catholic priests to disclose confessions related to ...

The Washington State Legislature is considering a bill to make clergy members in the state mandatory reporters of child abuse ...

It is “impossible,” he said for a priest to comply with the bill. However, he noted, the seal of confession does not prevent priests from telling offenders to turn themselves in.

Montana and Washington are among the states seeking to compel clergy to disclose abuse revealed to them in the context of the ...

A Montana bill that could compel Catholic priests to break the seal of confession is being criticized by Catholics who say it could eliminate key religious liberty protections. The proposed bill ...

A legislative committee heard testimony Tuesday on a bill that would change the requirements for when clergy must report ...