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Washington state will not enforce law requiring priests to violate Seal of Confession

Washington will no longer threaten priests with jail time and fines for upholding the Seal of Confession, the Alliance Defending Freedom announced today.

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Matt Lamb

• Oct 10, 2025Oct 11, 2025

Judge blocks Washington law that forces priests to break Seal of Confession

A federal judge sided with Catholic priests and blocked a Washington state law from going into effect that would threaten priests with jail time and fines for not breaking the Seal of Confession.

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Matt Lamb

• Jul 18, 2025Jul 19, 2025

Massachusetts judge blocks statues of St. Michael, St. Florian outside public safety building

A Catholic leader blasted the ‘extreme, anti-Christian’ ACLU and Freedom From Religion Foundation for suing to block the statues from being installed outside a new police and fire department building.

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Matt Lamb

• Oct 22, 2025Oct 22, 2025

Bishop Barron asks court to block Washington law that violates Seal of Confession

Bishop Robert Barron is urging a federal court to strike down Washington’s new requirement that priests break the confessional seal and excommunicate themselves or go to jail.

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Matt Lamb

• Jul 8, 2025Jul 9, 2025

DOJ sues Washington state over law forcing priests to violate Seal of Confession

A new Washington state law requiring priests to report child abuse disclosed during confession is also facing legal challenges from Catholic and Orthodox groups.

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Ray Hilbrich

• Jun 24, 2025Jun 24, 2025

Orthodox churches sue Washington state over law forcing priests to violate Seal of Confession

Orthodox churches, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, filed the latest legal challenge to Washington’s new law forcing priests to violate the Seal of Confession or face jail time.

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Matt Lamb

• Jun 18, 2025Jun 19, 2025

Archbishop Cordileone compares Washington law attacking Seal of Confession to Communist China

Archbishop Cordileone slammed a new law forcing priests to break the Seal of Confession in Washington state, telling Raymond Arroyo, ‘This is what is happening in China.’

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Antonino Cambria

• May 23, 2025May 23, 2025

Washington bishops sue to stop law forcing priests to violate Seal of Confession or go to jail

Washington clergy filed a federal lawsuit against the state for threatening them with jail time unless they commit the excommunicable offense of violating the Seal of Confession.

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Matt Lamb

• May 30, 2025Jun 2, 2025

‘No exceptions’: UK moves to crush sacred seal of confession in abuse cases

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, told the IICSA that the seal is 'an essential part of the exercise of priesthood.'

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Robert Jones

• May 21, 2025

Catholic bishops have not yet reckoned with their COVID-era blunders

When bishops shuttered churches and denied sacraments, they abandoned their flock at its hour of greatest need. True renewal begins with repentance, courage, and restored faith.

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Professor Timothy J.A. O’Donnell

• Nov 12, 2025

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Washington state will not enforce law requiring priests to violate Seal of Confession

Judge blocks Washington law that forces priests to break Seal of Confession

Massachusetts judge blocks statues of St. Michael, St. Florian outside public safety building

Bishop Barron asks court to block Washington law that violates Seal of Confession

DOJ sues Washington state over law forcing priests to violate Seal of Confession

Orthodox churches sue Washington state over law forcing priests to violate Seal of Confession

Archbishop Cordileone compares Washington law attacking Seal of Confession to Communist China

Washington bishops sue to stop law forcing priests to violate Seal of Confession or go to jail

‘No exceptions’: UK moves to crush sacred seal of confession in abuse cases

Catholic bishops have not yet reckoned with their COVID-era blunders