The case, a major test of the separation of church and state, was an unexpected loss for those advocating a greater role for ...

As civilian casualties from multiple conflicts have soared, the Holy See's diplomat to the United Nations has called for a renewed respect for human dignity and international law, along ...

The Trump administration’s Department of Justice declared the law “anti-Catholic ... practice doesn’t conflict with “public morals.” Hill added that the church cares about protecting ...

YAKIMA- The Rev. Msgr. Robert M. Siler, Episcopal Vicar and Moderator of the Curia for the Diocese of Yakima, has released ...

The Holy See established diplomatic relations with the UN in 1957, representing the Vatican City state as well as the supreme ...

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 ...

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, is ...

Washington state's bishops filed a lawsuit May 29 over a new law requiring clergy to report child abuse or neglect without exceptions for clergy-penitent privilege. First reported by Th ...

Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane expressed opposition to the law, speaking for other Catholic bishops and priests that they are “prepared to face jail rather than violate the rules of the church.” ...