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

The Archdiocese of Seattle is taking a stand against a recently passed Washington State law that would force priests to ...

We look forward to protecting Washington kids from sexual abuse,” Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson told McClatchy News.

The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the ...

Prevost, a member of the Augustinian religious order, lived for years in Peru first as a missionary and then as an archbishop ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago will succeed Pope Francis as the leader of the Catholic Church. Prevost, the first ...

Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring the reporting of child abuse confessions to authorities will be ...

With the conclave to select a new Pope beginning on May 7, many are wondering in what direction a new pope will take the ...

The Catholic Church said priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report ...