Senate Bill 5375 would require priests and other clergy to report child abuse and neglect. Washington State Senator Noel ...

A push to require clergy to report child abuse is back. This time, Democratic lawmakers might not be willing to compromise on ...

The bill asks the priest to choose between criminal penalties or giving up his lifelong vocation. And that’s the type of activity that the First Amendment is designed to protect against.” ...

Two Democratic state lawmakers are trying again to require clergy members in Washington to report child abuse or neglect, ...

AT LEAST nine priests affiliated with the Archdiocese of Cebu are among the 82 accused of sexually abusing minors, according ...

Montana and Washington are among the states seeking to compel clergy to disclose abuse revealed to them in the context of the ...

It is “impossible,” he said for a priest to comply with the bill. However, he noted, the seal of confession does not prevent priests from telling offenders to turn themselves in.

Q. 826. Which are the first things we should tell the priest in Confession? A. The first things we should tell the priest in Confession are the time of our last Confession, and whether we said the ...

This year’s legislation does essentially what the House has sought the past two sessions – making clergy mandatory reporters including what they hear in confessions. “Mandating that priests ...

Washington lawmakers are once again tackling the sensitive issue of mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect by clergy ...