Montana legislative proposal threatens confessional seal
January 22, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Montana’s legislature is weighing a bill that would require clerics to disclose reports of child abuse, even if they were made in a sacramental confession.
The bill would stipulate that priests—as well as doctors and social workers—“may not refuse to make a report as required” if they learn about child abuse. Opponents of the proposal have charged that it is an attack on religious freedom. Similar proposals have been defeated in other states.
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