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Catholic Church To Excommunicate Priests for Following New US State Law

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Catholic Church To Excommunicate Priests for Following New US State Law

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Catholic Church to excommunicate priests for following new US state law
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The Justice Department is investigating whether the new law violated the First Amendment.

The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring the reporting of child abuse confessions to authorities will be excommunicated.

https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-church-excommunicate-priests-following-new-us-state-law-2069039

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    You mean like the Boy Scouts?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_sex_abuse_cases

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      They do affiliate themselves with Christianity - maybe not Catholicism specifically, but the Catholic Church is hardly the only denomination of this cult that can’t keep their hands/mouths off of kids’ genitals.

      Frankly if I ever had kids I’d have a gaggle of drag queens babysit before I let any even slightly religiously affiliated group near them.

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      I think Boy Scouts have done a better job reforming than the Catholic church.

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        Recently maybe, but there was decades of abuse before that.

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          Yup, that’s what reforming means

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      Do the Boy Scouts have a legally protected mechanism to talk with each other about their child fucking that I’m not aware of?

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        Like a Signal chat? Wtf are you even asking?

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          I’m talking about how Catholic priests can legally refuse to report child abuse revealed to them in confessional in most states, the subject of this post.

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      That’s affiliated with the church so it’s probably ok.

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