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In reply to the discussion: Catholic Church Fights Bill To Force Priests To Report Sex Crimes Heard In Confession [View all]Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)35. And yet they don't excommunicate child raping priests
Instead they work with local law enforcement to never investigate them, move them to countries with lax enforcement of child molestation laws, and if that doesn't work they pay their legal bills and provide them with a retirement check after they get out of prison. Very telling that.
Believe it or not, many priests do confess to raping children to even law enforcement, so the idea they will simply stop confessing isn't a very good one. Absolution from guilt is really big with most Catholics. Unless they are complete sociopaths, and no doubt some are, that guilt is going to catch up with them sooner or later. No reason to give them a convenient outlet from which they can seek absolution without consequence.
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Catholic Church Fights Bill To Force Priests To Report Sex Crimes Heard In Confession [View all]
MineralMan
Jun 2019
OP
It is not true that the priest can put conditions on absolution. He must absolve regardless of the
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#33
Many Bills are proposed, and passed, that are determined to be unConstitutional.
guillaumeb
Jun 2019
#2
Because for them, religious privilege is more important than political consistency.
trotsky
Jun 2019
#19
Your free exercise of religion ends where religious people hide child rape behind the curtain of
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2019
#36
Might be better to 'chip away' at this, like they do to our side with abortion
mr_lebowski
Jun 2019
#4
Your proverbial log had no advocates, nor ostensible 1A rights ... just sayin (nt)
mr_lebowski
Jun 2019
#7
I don't disagree with any of this, but I'm not sure it'll pass Constitutional Muster
mr_lebowski
Jun 2019
#15
So far, no court has ruled that a priest must break the seal of the confessional. To do so
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#30
They confess when law enforcement has something on them. Your point about the pull of absolution
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#37