The 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film “I Confess,” based on an earlier play, features a priest suspected of murder. He’s innocent, and has even heard the murderer’s confession – but cannot clear his own name ...

A federal judge sided with Catholic priests, blocking a Washington law that targeted the confidentiality of confession.

Washington state's government and its Catholic bishops reached an agreement Oct. 10 in a federal lawsuit over the state's mandatory reporter law they said could force priests to ...

One supporter of the law, a member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, called the court decision "a ...

The Washington State Attorney General’s Office reported on Friday that it has reached an agreement with the Catholic Church ...

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