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To: marshmallow

In addition to being a violation of the religious freedom of Catholics, such a move would be self-defeating. If penitents knew that their confessions of abuse would be reported, they would simply not go to confession. The end result would be that the truly penitent would be deprived of the sacrament while there would be no new confessions of abuse to report to the police.


7 posted on 11/28/2017 6:54:35 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius
If penitents knew that their confessions of abuse would be reported, they would simply not go to confession.

Or just go to a behind-screen confessional in a parish where their voice isn't known.

10 posted on 11/28/2017 7:03:29 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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