SEATTLE — The archbishop of Seattle ... Taylor: How do you see the election of a new pope shaping the direction of the Catholic Church globally? Etienne: We know we want a man of prayer ...

Roman Catholic bishops from the state of Washington have filed a lawsuit challenging a new law that forces them to violate ...

Last year, while Washington's current governor, Ferguson, was still the state's attorney general, he pushed to investigate Catholic church leadership in Seattle, Spokane and Yakima for allegedly ...

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest ... during the Sacrament of Reconciliation,” the Archdiocese of Seattle said in a statement. “Catholic clergy may not violate the ...

Want to know how the first American pope might lead the Catholic Church? Look no further than his name. Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne said Cardinal Robert Prevost's chosen name, Leo XIV ...

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement. "Catholic ...

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 ...

Washington’s Catholic leaders sued state leaders and county prosecutors Thursday, alleging that a controversial new law requiring priests to break the confessional seal to report suspected child abuse ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has the world's highest school dropout rates and a driving factor is that parents are being crushed by ...