Born in the U.S., forged in Peru, chosen in Rome, Leo XIV will helm a church facing debt, division and decline ...

Religious leaders in Washington state will soon be legally required to report suspected child abuse, even when it is revealed ...

Catholic priests are pushing back against a new Washington state law that requires clergy to report child abuse to law ...

Governor Bob Ferguson signed into law a new requirement that clergy of all faiths become mandatory reporters of child abuse. It’s a move that’s especially controversial for the Catholic Church because ...

The Catholic Church is against a new law that was pushed through by Democrats requiring priests to break the confidentiality ...

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

Washington is now one of eight states that requires clergy to report child abuse and neglect, even if they learn about it in ...

San Diego County officials are being inundated with lawsuit after lawsuit alleging heinous behavior by social workers — men ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

We want to be a synodal church. A church that walks, a church that always seeks peace, that always seeks charity, that always ...

A part-time church employee who coordinated altar servers at a Queens parish was arrested earlier this month after an abuse ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has something in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy. He’s been in positions of ...