Governo: nessuna esenzione religiosa per l’abuso della legge sui rapporti
https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/05/government-no-religious-exemptions-to-abuse-reporting-law
di birdinthebush74
Governo: nessuna esenzione religiosa per l’abuso della legge sui rapporti
https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/05/government-no-religious-exemptions-to-abuse-reporting-law
di birdinthebush74
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The NSS intervention came after the bishop of Manchester, David Walker, [claimed](https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/04/lord-spiritual-argues-for-religious-exemption-to-child-abuse-law) there was an “arguable case” for exempting child sexual abuse revealed during confession.
I guess that case would be when the rector is at it again?
> He said the tradition of “the seal of the confessional” had been “honoured for many centuries” and was “established in canon law in this land”.
> “I know my Catholic colleagues will particularly be concerned around that”, he added.
In the grand old tradition of protecting child rapists, the Catholic Church excels above all else.
Want to get to heaven but molested kids and don’t want to go to prison, tell a priest!
I could see a world where psychiatrists were exempt from reporting, because they could help the patient resist their crimes. Call me soft but I don’t think someone with a compulsion and attraction as evil, more of a mental illness.
But the fact they just confess to a priest to feel better about and get into heaven, I don’t see that reasoning as justified.