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California lawmakers threaten to break confidentiality of confession to find abusers

May 31, 2019

(RNS) — The bill extends the debate over 'clergy-penitent privilege' provoked by similar provisions passed or considered in other states since at least 2002.

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Why making clergy mandatory reporters won't solve the Catholic abuse crisis

by Thomas Reese

January 14, 2019

(RNS) — Even covering confession under mandatory reporting rules would have little effect, since few abusers would confess such a sin if they thought their confidences were not secure.

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Abandoning celibacy won’t stop sexual abuse by priests

by Thomas Reese

December 19, 2017

(RNS) — We know for a fact that noncelibate men, including married men, also abuse children.

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Catholic 'seal of the confessional' upheld as religious liberty issue

by Kimberly Winston

March 1, 2016

(RNS) To compel a priest to report crimes -- even child sexual abuse -- that he learns in the confessional is a violation of religious freedom, ruled a Louisiana court.

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California lawmakers threaten to break confidentiality of confession to find abusers

Why making clergy mandatory reporters won't solve the Catholic abuse crisis

Abandoning celibacy won’t stop sexual abuse by priests

Catholic 'seal of the confessional' upheld as religious liberty issue

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