Heck in some states, ordinary citizens are required to report suspected abuse.

The rest of us have to follow the law.

I volunteer at a protestant church camp. We go through training every other year as mandatory reporters. All the clergy as well even though they must go thru the training to get and maintain standing.

Child abuse should never be allowed to be covered up.

But as Jimmy Carr says about the Pope, any Pope...he is the king of the pedos

…within a few days of passing this law, they passed another law that expands the attorney-client privilege for the same offenses by including (sounds like) law professors who are working cases with clients.

The ruling does not apply to any knowledge gained outside of the confessional during an actual confession - plaintiffs didn’t challenge that, and such reporting is still required.

That the law would include anything said to a priest in confession.

I'm sure a lot of sex abuse has been covered up under the seal of confession.

This is disgusting. They should be ashamed of them selves covering up for violent criminals instead of just letting them face justice early on and reducing repeat crimes.

Damn Straight!!!!!!!!!!!

All because of a Dr. here in Colorado by the Name of Henry Kempe who in the late 60's authored The Battered Child Syndrome.
He was a Professor of Pediatrics at CU Medical School and implemented laws here in Colorado that spread across the entire nation.

Previous to those laws, if a teacher, doctor, etc reported child abuse, they would almost always get sued by the parent, and the parent would most often win.
Kempe's influence caused the laws to be changed to where a Dr., Teacher, etc could be criminally charged for NOT reporting suspected child abuse.
Not only that, if they reported child abuse, they were immune from being sued.

After these Catholic priests behavior being documented these past decades, I can sure as hell see why they wouldn't want these laws to apply to them.......The Boy Scout leaders will be next, and then the children's team's coaches, etc etc etc.....

…a full exemption for Catholic priests to report.

Anything discussed in the confessional.

Catholic law mandates that they be expunged from Priesthood if they tell anyone. It's been a while, but I believe they can't even tell another Priest.

Is suing for the right to keep silent about child abuse.

Got it.

So many in the catholic church are pedophiles. Both priests and parishioners.

The church used the first amendment to get the IRS ruling that not being able to endorse candidates or speak politics is against their First Amendment rights.

Then the church used it again to fight against the law that made it mandatory to report child abuse etc. And the court sided with the church.

This is just sickening.

On the bright side Pope Leo IS the catholic church. I'm 💯 certain Pope Leo won't be supporting any magas.

...but 100% guarantee that he supports this ruling.

...did not push to change the IRS rules about endorsing political parties and/or candidates, and says that they will continue with the no endorsement policy.

https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/catholic-church-maintains-its-stance-not-endorsing-or-opposing-political-candidates

So is a priest still permitted to give a child a benediction in the rectory?

of the First Amendment rights of pedophiles to report their crimes.

These are basically witnesses to a crime, so they shouldn't be exempt.

Right wing religious extremists, project 2025, are
immoral and dangerous.

predators at a time where sexual predators are very much at the forefront of awareness.

For reasons they know full well.

...there would have been no need to defend the secrecy of the confessional until a law mandating that they break the secrecy was enacted, which was May 7 of this year, and the lawsuit was filed on May 29.

with an image of him as Pope?

so it's good to have someone experienced in the genre go to bat for you.

protecting the abusers.