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California lawmakers threaten to break confidentiality of confession to find abusers
By Jack Jenkins — 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.
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.
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.
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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