The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring the reporting of child abuse confessions to authorities will be excommunicated.

https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-church-excommunicate-priests-following-new-us-state-law-2069039

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[+] 142 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do the Boy Scouts have a legally protected mechanism to talk with each other about their child fucking that I’m not aware of?

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think Boy Scouts have done a better job reforming than the Catholic church.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That’s affiliated with the church so it’s probably ok.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You're out of date. A lot of scouts exist apart from churches now. Hypocritically, the churches are distancing themselves from scouts which have reformed.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    They do affiliate themselves with Christianity - maybe not Catholicism specifically, but the Catholic Church is hardly the only denomination of this cult that can’t keep their hands/mouths off of kids’ genitals.

    Frankly if I ever had kids I’d have a gaggle of drag queens babysit before I let any even slightly religiously affiliated group near them.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Same here. Leary of any adult dude who wants to hang out with kids that don’t include their own child in the mix.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I think you should make some exceptions. Youth (including scouts) need mentors to develop skills. Just because my kids age won't change that. I'll still feel the Call. It's very rewarding to see a kiddo grow. Totally redefined my concept of "legacy".

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    I don't want to derail the discussion, but Churches aren't the only organisation attracting/raising child sexual abusers. Sports clubs are an example for secular organisations facing a similar problem.

    Sports clubs on the other hand don't have this kind of power and history as organised religion.

    Sports clubs would simply be banned, but try to ban the Catholic Church in a place with a Catholic majority.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago*

    I mean, you joke, kind of, but a massive, MASSIVE amount of QAnon bullshit that drives current rightwingers in the US is literally nothing but inventing fake demonic pedophile cults and putting anyone they don't like in these made up cults...

    All so that they can demonize others, and what this functionally does is give these nutjobs an infinite well of whataboutisms to either shift a conversation about pederasty and child abuse in any christian church/sect ... over to 'the even worserer badderer people'...

    ...or just do something akin to a 'no true scotsman' and claim that anyone in any church who is a pedo or child abuser... well actually they're not a real christian, they're a secret demonic cult member who is embedded in the organization to both commit evil and also to discredit the church when they are exposed.

    The purpose of a system is what it does, not what it claims to do.

    These people invented what is essentially their own new religion, a religion dlc, which entirely serves as a mechanism to avoid and make impossible discussions of actual child sa, abuse, going on in the institutions they revere.

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