A group of Catholic bishops and priests in Washington state filed a federal lawsuit Thursday, challenging a new Washington law requiring priests to report suspected child abuse or neglect shared ...

Catholic leaders in Washington have sued the state over a new law requiring clergy ... The lawsuit, filed last week on behalf of the bishops, alleges Senate Bill 5375, which was signed into ...

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

SEATTLE — Washington state Catholic bishops are suing the state over a new law that requires clergy members to be mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect. The Catholic church's top bishops ...

Washington’s leading Catholic bishops filed a lawsuit Thursday contending the new state law requiring religious leaders to report child abuse or neglect, even when it is disclosed in confession ...

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

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The Catholic Church in Washington including the Bishop of Spokane Thomas Daly are suing the state over a recently passed mandated reporter law. Washington state's new law would ...

Catholic bishops in Washington state are suing to block a law that would force priests to choose between breaking the seal of confession and getting excommunicated or receiving jail time. The ...

Bishops in Washington’s three Catholic dioceses announced Thursday that they will sue the state over a law signed by Democratic Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on May 2, requiring priests to break ...

The DOJ is taking on Washington state over a new law forcing clergy to report child abuse disclosed in confession, raising ...