I get that confession is sort of a sacred and private thing, but I'm a firm believer any priest who refuses to report child abuse because of privacy should start repenting immediately.
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Kind of a situation where God asks you why you didn't report the child being abused in order to save them and you try to weasel your way out by telling him that your sacred vow prevented you. Only for God to cut you off mid sentence and ask in a more firm tone why you didn't report the child being abused.
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Yes yes, that sounds good, but think for a few more minutes.
If the secrecy is legally disallowed, no one will confess it. Which is better: never hearing about it, or giving the priest the chance to intervene and report on their own.
As someone who was once a mandated reporter, fuck that and fuck them.
Most of the perps doing most of the confessing are probably Catholic priests themselves.
Now according to the Supreme Court doesn't this ruling only hold true for these three Bishop's then? I thought that was the new law of the land but you could only sue for yourself and your own rights and not for anyone else's. Every other priest in Washington would have to sue on their own correct? Seems like quite a burden on all the child rapists I'm sorry I mean Catholic priests in that state.