Arizona clergy who learn of child abuse in confessions aren’t required to report it, court rules

State supreme court rules in case of two bishops who were silent about three children abused by Mormon parents Clergy members in Arizona who learn of child abuse in the context of religious confession are not required to report it, the state’s supreme court has said in a ruling that protects what church leaders call the “seal of the confessional”. The panel’s ruling ends a long-running case in which three children who were sexually abused by their parents sued the Church of Jesus Christ of La...

By Richard Luscombe