Posted on 03/20/2019 6:37:58 PM PDT by marshmallow
CARE Act aimed at clamping down on child abuse
ALBANY, N.Y. (ChurchMilitant.com) - Under a proposed New York law, Catholic priests would be required to report cases of child abuse revealed inside the confessional.
With the clerical sex abuse crisis continuing to unfold across the state's eight dioceses, on Thursday, Assemblywoman Monica P. Wallace (D-Cheektowaga) introduced the CARE Act, a bill to force clergy of all faiths to notify law enforcement of child abuse.
Under current state law, dozens of professions are required to report harm to children, but a "clergy privilege" provision exempts priests from revealing crimes revealed in confession. Under the proposed CARE Act, "Such privilege shall not be grounds for failure to report a case of suspected child abuse or maltreatment."
Neither Wallace's home diocese of Buffalo nor the New York State Catholic Conference have commented on the proposal.
The Empire State has featured heavily in the sex abuse scandals. The archdiocese of New York was home base for serial predator Theodore McCarrick, and it was where his decades of abuse were first exposed, kicking off the "Summer of Shame" last June.
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The proper response, as it has always been, is “pound sand”.
Does this only apply to just child abuse confessions or all confessions.
Because I might have to visit a few priests tomorrow depending.
I would think that making them “mandated reporters” like teachers and nurses would cover this already.
The church has earned this by protecting them and not turning these monsters over to the law. It should have been standard practice from the get go.
Doesn’t matter. Either confession is completely confidential, or it is not. The State has no authority to make that decision.
The proper response to adults disobeying the command to protect little ones is to tie them to a millstone and drop them into the depths of the sea.
I have no problem sending the accessories to pedophiles where they belong... together.
The only way I see for the state to enforce this is to send actors to confession and confess phony “sins” to see if they get reported. Sounds like entrapment.
I don't care.
Hopefully, there are citizens who will stop tyranny.
That’s the thing.
Pedophiles and the people who hell them are (by your own admission in post #2) more important than children who have been and may still be experiencing rape.
Few people give a damn about your opinion and it quite properly calls into question any opinion you might ever advance about any moral or ethical matter of any sort.
You earned that.
My guess is lawyers will not have to report anything confidential their clients say however.
Keep in mind...this *is* New York we're talking about.
I see no good from this. Besides, chances are people involved in doing little kids and stuff generally are not in the habit of "confessing" anything unless they get caught in the act.
Lord, could you just come already?
Nothing in the bible about a “confessional seal”. It’s made-up tradition that allows pedophile/homosexual catholic priests to get aroused from the confessions of pedophiles, with no consequences, like there is for molesting children and watching child pornography.
Bible-only Christianity is a made-up tradition.
Such ignorance on parade. It seems you believe the only things said in confession are about sex.
I have yet to see an account of how this will supposedly work in practice. Seems like a pretty low bar for people that support it.
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