The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

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

But “I can now say it,” John Prevost, one of two brothers of Pope Leo XIV, said in an interview Thursday with ABC News.

The Archdiocese of Seattle is taking a stand against a recently passed Washington State law that would force priests to ...

The Catholic Church said priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

In his advocacy of the poor, migrants and a more open church, many people see the new pope as a continuation of his predecessor.

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report ...

Catholics are putting church over state when it comes to a new law requiring priests to report confessions about child abuse ...

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

On May 8, the most senior figured in the Roman Catholic Church chose Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost to be the 267th pope just one day after the papal conclave commenced. Originally from Chicago, the ...