California SB360

[modestobruce]

There’s a bill going through the state legislature that would require priests to reveal to police the confession of another priest who confesses if he molested a child. This violates the separation of church and state, IMO. Thoughts?

 

[Mtatum1958]

In his article, Bishop Robert Barron explains it well.

The real danger posed by the California Confession bill

SB 360, a piece of proposed legislation currently making its way through the California state senate, should alarm not only every Catholic in the country, but indeed the adepts of any religion. In California, as in almost every other state, clergy members (along with a variety of other...

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[poche]

We will have the spectacle of faithful priests going to prison for the seal of confession.

 

[Mtatum1958]

Maybe, but most likely for the entrapment rather than the proposed purpose of this bil.