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New Law Requires Priests to Break Seal of Confession to Report Child Abuse

The state law, in Washington, applies to all religions but has outraged Catholics in particular. The Justice Department is investigating.

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Feds call child abuse confession law for priests "anti-Catholic" as church vows to excommunicate those who comply

Priests are required to report child abuse or neglect to Washington state law enforcement after learning about the crime through confessions.

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Catholic Church To Excommunicate Priests for Following New US State Law

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.

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For I Have Sinned

But starting in the 1970s, they stopped, and in his new book, For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in ...

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The Presbyterian Confession of 1967

What happened was this. The Presbyterian Church in May completed a nine-year process of revising its confessional standards. Under the American equivalent of the Scottish Barrier Act (which guards ...

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Trump’s Justice Department investigates Washington law threatening seal of confession

The new law, signed by Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson last week, adds members of the clergy to the list of mandatory reporters ...

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Washington state makes clergy mandatory reporters without exemption for confession

The law could place Catholic priests at odds with civil law in order to uphold church law regarding the seal of the ...

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