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unrestrained id said:
One of the new pope's first priorities should be to order that all molesting priests be turned over to law enforcement agencies. He should also order that the privacy of the confessional does not apply in these cases. Molesters do not deserve such protection. Those who protect molesters should also be prosecuted for conspiracy.



The Pope is a religious figure, not a legal one.

The privacy of the confessional will never get overturned in the United States, especially as religiously dogmatic as the current religious Right is in the United States.

The Pope isn't in position to be demanding who should and who should not be prosecuted, at least not in the United States. If he wants the Church to stop protecting pedophilic priests, that's fine and he can make his demands within his Papal context.

We all wear a green carnation.