I might find this convincing if the Catholic Church has not spent so much time working so hard to enable pedo rapists within their organization. Childrens’ rights to not be victimized are significantly more important than Catholics confession. Let God forgive them, let them enjoy that forgiveness in prison.
This ruling affects far more than just Catholics though. And proving that someone else protected the victimizer by interfering with the criminal justice system or intimidated the victim is still separately illegal by making one an accessory and not impacted by this ruling.
I might find this convincing if the Catholic Church has not spent so much time working so hard to enable pedo rapists within their organization. Childrens’ rights to not be victimized are significantly more important than Catholics confession. Let God forgive them, let them enjoy that forgiveness in prison.
This ruling affects far more than just Catholics though. And proving that someone else protected the victimizer by interfering with the criminal justice system or intimidated the victim is still separately illegal by making one an accessory and not impacted by this ruling.