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An Open Letter to Pope Leo About the Need to Create an Exception to the Confessional Privilege to Prevent Child Sex Abuse

Marci A. Hamilton

University of Pennsylvania professor Marci A. Hamilton, in an open letter to Pope Leo XIV, discusses the legal and moral case for eliminating the priest-penitent confessional privilege when clergy learn of child sex abuse, situating the issue within recent state legislative efforts in Vermont and Missouri and the Church’s history of covering up abuse.

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