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(OSV News) –Washington state’s government and its Catholic bishops reached an agreement Oct. 10 in a federal lawsuit over the state s mandatory reporter law they said could force priests to violate the seal of Confession. In an order filed with the U.S. district court in Tacoma, the state was blocked from enforcing the law “as to the sacrament of Confession” against priests “who fall directly under the administration” of the bishops leading Washington’s Catholic dioceses, who were plaintiffs in the suit. The state’s Catholic bishops previously filed their lawsuit in response to Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson’s approval of Senate Bill 5375, which designated members of the clergy as mandatory...

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