PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Washington has rolled back its attempt to require priests to inform authorities about child abuse in all instances. Officials reached an agreement with the Catholic church ...

In May, the state Legislature passed a bill requiring clergy to report child abuse, bringing Washington in line with most of the rest of the country after previous efforts to hold church abuse ...

The St. James Cathedral is the cathedral for the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle and its Archbishop Paul Etienne, who is one of nearly a dozen plaintiffs suing the state over a new law that would ...

OLYMPIA — Clergy in Washington will remain mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect, but prosecutors will not enforce the law when abuse is disclosed solely during religious confession, ...

The New Orleans Archdiocese will pay at least $230 million to hundreds of survivors of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement ...