• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Incorrect, I feel like you’re the one not listening, what I am not permitting is fining and imprisoning clergy for not keeping an accurate account of who admitted to what past crimes in confessionals.

    If the priests do hear a confession from a dangerous individual then I hope they do pass a tip onto the police and even be willing to testify at the risk of excommunication, but to punish priests for the crime of association seems pointless and would likely decrease the possibility of such a confession in the first place.

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      22 hours ago

      If the priests do hear a confession from a dangerous individual then I hope they do pass a tip onto the police and even be willing to testify at the risk of excommunication

      hope? the best you can tell the pedo’s victims is that you hope? sorry kid, we hoped the pedo would stop but… oh well.

      IF YOU HAVE IT WITHIN YOUR POWER TO STOP ABUSE AND DO NOT YOU ARE ENABLING IT.

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        22 hours ago

        Yes I hope, just like you hope sociopaths and criminals still go to confession when its mandated law for the priest to rat you out even for faintest hints of a past crime.

        IT IS NOT WITHIN OUR POWER TO FORCE PRIESTS TO STOP ABUSE IN THIS CONTEXT. PRIESTS ARE AS LIKELY TO COMPLY NOW AS WITH THE LAW IN PLACE. THIS IS JUST AN EXCUSE TO PROSECUTE CATHOLIC PRIESTS TO FUND POLICE AND PRIVATE PRISONS.

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      2 days ago

      If a person knows another person fucked a child and they don’t report it, they should be torn in half by horses, and anyone who sides with those rapists should join them. You’re a sick fuck.

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        22 hours ago

        See the thing is you’re not held to that standard. You realize that, right? If you know of such a crime and don’t report it, you don’t face charges. But Catholic Priests are, they’re expected to as Mandated Reporters, but Catholic Priests have confessionals which do not record or report who is saying what.

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          21 hours ago

          If a catholic priest hears a person confess to fucking a child, they need to exit the booth, identify the person, and call the police. If they don’t they are complicit and should be sent to jail—or killed whatever.

          You sound a lot like 1) a priest or 2) a child molester or 3) a republican. Maybe all 3.