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
And there goes any hope of Ameripope not being a piece of shit. Delightful.
This article is from 2 days ago before he was elected the pope.
How could they possibly have known?! /s
Being a piece of shit is a prerequisite to be a religious leader, full stop.
Eh, there are absolutely religious leaders who aren’t pieces of shit, but there are very, very few of them.
That ship sailed when they elected a Catholic. What else could have happened?
You… uh… realize that the pope is the head of the Catholic Church, right…?
Their point was that all Catholic leadership are pieces of shit. Basically just saying, ‘duh’
Yes.
you don’t get to a place where you’re eligible to become pope without some skeletons in your closet