Slightly disingenuous, the new church law requires reporting sexual abuse to higher-ups, it doesn’t say “don’t go to the police”. It’s also a rule that only covers clergy and not average parishioners. Should it mandate reporting to the police? Absolutely, but at least it requires clergy to tell someone about abuse, which will hopefully spur them to also tell law enforcement.
Wait wait wait…you mean to tell me they’re just NOW saying the clergy has to report abuse? I assumed it’s been something they’re ignoring or not enforcing, but it literally hasn’t been a rule…this whole time?
And speaking of the child molesting-
“Pope mandates reporting of sex abuse to church, not police”
https://apnews.com/article/ae64aa69d90043caaa38e52ee58eae2c
Slightly disingenuous, the new church law requires reporting sexual abuse to higher-ups, it doesn’t say “don’t go to the police”. It’s also a rule that only covers clergy and not average parishioners. Should it mandate reporting to the police? Absolutely, but at least it requires clergy to tell someone about abuse, which will hopefully spur them to also tell law enforcement.
Wait wait wait…you mean to tell me they’re just NOW saying the clergy has to report abuse? I assumed it’s been something they’re ignoring or not enforcing, but it literally hasn’t been a rule…this whole time?