The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, representing over 500 Catholic priests and deacons, has issued a statement defending ...

Expounded in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (No. 1467) and the Code of Canon Law (Nos. 983, 1388), this teaching binds priests to maintain absolute confidentiality regarding both the content ...

The Justice Department's lawsuit backed the Catholic leaders in a legal filing on Monday, arguing the law "unlawfully targets ...

The seal of confidentiality is ... the lifeblood of confession. Without it, the free exercise of the Catholic religion cannot ...

DOJ said it is intervening in Etienne v. Ferguson, a lawsuit filed by Catholic bishops in Washington state who filed a ...

The Trump administration has joined litigation against Washington state over a recently passed law that requires Catholic ...

President Donald Trump's Justice Department announced on Monday that it was taking legal action against a new law in ...

OLYMPIA, WA. - The Justice Department (DOJ) filed a lawsuit Monday, June 23, against Washington state over a new law the ...

The law requires Catholic priests to break the confessional seal to report information about suspected child abuse or neglect ...

Washington state's law could place clergy at odds with civil law in order to uphold church law regarding seal of confessional ...