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SACRAMENTO, Cali. (CBS NEWS) - A restaurant chain in California enlisted a fake priest to take confession from workers, with the supposed father urging them to “get the sins out” by telling him if ...

A taqueria chain in California has been ordered by the Department of Labor to pay $140,000 in back pay and damages to 35 employees for a range of infractions, including hiring a fake priest to elicit ...

Officials in Washington State have agreed to water down a key provision of a child abuse reporting law passed to prevent ...

A motion filed in federal district court Oct. 10 affirmed that state and local governments would stop attempting to require ...

A Missouri Catholic priest was found guilty by the church of soliciting sex from an adult during a confession, church officials announced. Father Ignazio Medina, a priest with the Diocese of Jefferson ...

Clergy must still tell authorities of potential mistreatment, but will not have to divulge information they hear in ...

California priest who abused boys wrote an essay detailing his molestation. June 1, 2012— -- The lurid confessions of a priest who sexually abused young boys in his parish choir and the seminary ...

In Etienne v. Ferguson, the Archdiocese of Seattle and the dioceses of Spokane and Yakima argued that the new law violated ...