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Catholic Church, Washington and confession

Feds call child abuse confession law for priests "anti-Catholic" as church vows to excommunicate those who comply

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

Fox News on MSN · 3d

Catholic Church to excommunicate priests for following WA law requiring child abuse confessions to be reported

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.

New York Post on MSN · 4d

Catholic Church vows to excommunicate priests who follow new Washington state law requiring them to report confessions to cops

Catholics are putting church over state when it comes to a new law requiring priests to report confessions about child abuse — and the Department of Justice has their back.

Pope Leo XIV, Catholic church

The Washington Post · 1d

What Pope Leo XIV means for the U.S. Catholic church and Trump

The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the will of his predecessors.

ABC · 10h

Pope Leo XIV must carefully thread needle between Catholic Church's mission, US politics: Experts

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S. politics and his papal duties.

Los Angeles Times · 21h

In the election of Pope Leo XIV, a call for Americans to be great again

Robert Francis Prevost is an American leader who can remind the world what the United States represents at its best.

18hon MSN

Catholic bishops vow to resist blue state law intruding on 'sacred' trust: 'Obey God rather than men'

A new law signed by Democratic Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson poses a danger to religious liberty and a sacred trust of ...

The Christian Post on MSN4d

DOJ launches probe into Washington law forcing Catholic priests to violate confessional seal

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the state of Washington's new law that could require ...

2don MSN

Sistine Chapel prepped for conclave as battle lines are drawn for future of Catholic Church

The Sistine Chapel is ready for the papal conclave. Front-runners such as Parolin and Tagle are losing momentum amid a ...

Seattle archbishop goes on the record about future of the Catholic Church

Archbishop of Seattle Paul Etienne discussed the future of the Catholic Church and how Washington clergy will navigate a new ...

Fox 12 Oregon1d

Catholic Church to excommunicate priests who follow new Washington state law

SEATTLE (KPTV) - The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report child abuse to law enforcement – even in the privacy ...

22hOpinion

Washington state’s attack on religious liberty

Washington state's new law denying clergy an exemption for “privileged communication” for information disclosed during ...

The Latest: Catholic cardinals to sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of the conclave

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the ...

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