Finally. We wouldn't want to break a beautiful age old Catholic tradition in which a pedophile comes to church every week and gets atoned for molesting a child in his care (or locked in his basement) because even pedophiles deserve to go to Heaven and play Pickleball with Jesus.
Quote:Washington will not require priests to report child abuse disclosed in confession
Washington has abandoned its effort to force Catholic priests and other religious leaders to divulge information on child abuse and neglect they learn of in confession.
With a pair of legal filings, the state agreed not to enforce the controversial provision of a new state law that adds clergy to a list of professions that must report to law enforcement when they have “reasonable cause to believe that a child has suffered abuse or neglect.”
The Trump administration had also weighed in on the case, siding with the churches.
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025...onfession/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
