Trump administration intervenes to help block law requiring priests to report child abuse

[Guno צְבִי]

A federal judge has ruled that Catholic priests in Washington state cannot be required to report child abuse or neglect they learn about through confession after the Trump administration intervened in their favor.

It comes after the Trump administration cut funding for investigating child sexual abuse, and refused to release promised documents about the crimes and associates of Jeffrey Epstein

Trump administration intervenes to help block law requiring priests to report child abuse revealed in confessions

The Department of Justice had lent its support to Catholic leaders who said the new law would force them to choose between prison and excommunication

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[NiftyNiblick]

Priests have always held the confessional to be private.

Even though I'm totally lapsed from having been a Catholic,
and even though I'm skeptical about all religion
and outright hostile toward any hint of theocracy,

I don't think that anybody has the right to ask what was said in a confessional, lawyer's office, or physician's office.
I would rather just arrest parents who leave their children in the care of clergy.

The "finook" priests are mentally ill.
The parents are criminally negligent.