The Trump administration has launched an investigation into the law, calling it "anti-Catholic." The bishops say it would ...

Lawyers are suing Washington state over a new mandatory reporting law for child abuse, saying the law is unconstitutional.

"Punishing priests for following the Catholic Church's millennia-old faith traditions isn't just wrong, it's unconstitutional ...

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed the legislation into law May 2 and it will take effect July 27. Under the law, clergy ...

The measure, signed by the governor, could lead to clergy being excommunicated, fined and incarcerated.

Washington’s leading Catholic bishops filed a lawsuit Thursday contending the new state law requiring religious leaders to ...

Religious leaders in Washington are taking legal action against a new state law set to take effect next month. The law ...

Proposed Washington state legislation makes members of the clergy mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect.

A new state law requires priests to report suspected child abuse, even if they hear the information in confessional.

Two men who say they were repeatedly abused while living at a group home on Cypress Island decades ago are now suing the ...