52fighters
Interests: Linux, Economics, Politics, & Religion.
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52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgto News@lemmy.world•A judge has barred Washington from enforcing a state law that would have required Churches to report child abuse. The judge says the law infringed on freedom of religionEnglish13·9 days agoMore specifically, Washington State (and most other states) have mandated reporter laws regarding child abuse. If your profession is on the list, you are a mandated reporter. Construction workers are an example of people not mandated reporters. If they suspect abuse they should say something but aren’t legally mandated. Teachers, nurses, and clergy are examples of mandated reporters. They have to say something. The carve out is if the priest learns the information during a sacramental confession. Outside of the confessional, he still reports. But because people stop going to confession when priests don’t have the seal of the confessional, churches maintain that requirement. Child abusers aren’t going to confess to someone who will report that confession to the government so it isn’t like this law was going to stop any abuse. In fact, more abuse might happen when perverts have no one to turn to when they need someone to deal with their messed up psychology.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgto News@lemmy.world•Trump intervenes to help block law requiring priests report child abuse in confessionEnglish2·9 days agoThere’s a great Hitchcock movie about murder and confession and a priest who cannot protect his own name because of the seal of the confessional. I highly recommend watching:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Confess_(film)
The seal of the confessional is so strict that if a man confessed putting poison in the communion wine before Mass, after leaving the confessional the priest could not act on that information, even if it meant drinking the wine at Mass and dying.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgto World News@lemmy.world•An American father who moved to Russia to avoid LGBTQ+ “indoctrination” is being sent to the front line against Ukraine despite being assured he would serve in a non-combat role.English2·10 days agoI’ve seen their videos. I feel bad for the kids. Not the wife. She’s there with him for the same stupid reasons. The kids are obviously suffering, especially the oldest.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Canada to target steel originating from China with new tariffsEnglish7·13 days agoIt makes sense for Canada to preserve its steel industry, economics aside.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it weird I don't typically answer how old I am anymore, because literally nobody besides my family believes me?English3·13 days agoI get told that whenever I run into people from high school, unless I’ve got my beard. My beard is gray enough to show my age.
That pavement represents a lot of government subsidies. Big highway doesn’t exist without big government.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgto News@lemmy.world•President Trump tells Texas Republicans to redraw the state congressional map to help keep House majorityEnglish11·14 days agoDid they need to be told?
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgto News@lemmy.world•25% of young Americans aged 18 to 24 eat every meal alone—'a virtual doubling of what it was two decades ago,' expert saysEnglish2·15 days agoWe should entertain the idea that this is the effect, not the cause, of the problem. That we have cause and effect in reverse.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgto News@lemmy.world•Southern California bishop suspends weekly Mass obligation over immigration raid fearsEnglish7·19 days agoI think you may be misinformed. Headline: Harris leads Trump among Catholic voters, per EWTN News/RealClear poll.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgto News@lemmy.world•The Catholic Church won’t endorse political candidates, even if IRS rules change, bishops announceEnglish10·19 days agoAs a Catholic and as a moderator of https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/Catholic, I think this is a good move by the bishops. The Catholic Church is not defined by modern political divisions. We have priests walking with immigrants to court to discourage ICE from kidnapping immigrants, we have prayer groups outside most abortion clinics, we have protestors at every execution (capital punishment), we are told by our bishops to care for the poor, both personally and through the government we elect, and we are told that the right to life is a fundamental issue. We oppose the legal recognition of same-gender marriage and the acceptance of gender as a self-imposed construct. My bishop has helped promote legislation targeting payday lenders and other usurers while also doing the same in opposition to assisted suicide. We are a mixed bag. We are on both sides of the aisle. And both parties really want to gain our vote. If we self-declare an allegiance to either party, that harms our position. We risk becoming like the partisans on both sides who, as we often see, change their views to fit what’s convenient for the political party.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgOPto World News@lemmy.world•Trump says US will resume weapon shipments to Ukraine days after pauseEnglish31·22 days agoPete Hegseth probably blocked aid on his own authority without asking President Trump first. This is a correction of that decision. Unfortunately, Trump prizes loyalty even above being in sync on policy issues.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgOPto World News@lemmy.world•For the first time, Xi is missing a China-backed BRICS summit. Why?English1·22 days agoExactly.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgOPto World News@lemmy.world•For the first time, Xi is missing a China-backed BRICS summit. Why?English6·22 days agoWe will know late August, when the CCP meets and the shakeup is supposedly going to take place. IMO, the time between now and then is dangerous as Xi might make an extreme act to hold on to power.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgto News@lemmy.world•Kids are ditching traditional college for career tech programs. Parents are concerned.English4·22 days agoIf you go to college, the degree you get also matters. Professions requiring a degree “just because” is gone. Now the only degrees worthwhile are those where that’s the only way into a specific profession, like medicine.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Anyone have the experience registering a domain name with false personal information?English3·23 days agoWill a .onion site work for you instead? No registration, no cost, and easy to self-host.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Exclusive: China auto industry inflates sales by exporting new cars as 'used'English12·1 month agoThe Chinese government is paying huge incentives for every car sold. This is their way of gaming the system to subsidize their industry and undercut non-Chinese auto makers.
The seal requires they act outside the confessional as if they never received the information. Anything else could make apparent to others what happened in the confession through context and clues.