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 GettyROME—When Father Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, the head of the French Bishops Conference, suggested that the Catholic Church lift the veil of secrecy on confessions as a way to combat clerical sex abuse this week, eyes rolled at the Vatican. The seal of secrecy on confessions is hundreds of years old and has survived intact through every major sex abuse scandal of the modern era and scores of popes—and any priest who breaks it is automatically excommunicated from the church.
Moulins-Beaufort made the comment on the heels of one of the worst sex abuse scandals to rock the church since Spotlight won an Oscar, with the revelation that thousands of Catholic nuns, priests and lay people abused more than 300,000 minors over a 70-year period. "The scope of the violence and sexual assaults against minors revealed by the report demands that the church revise its practices in light of this reality," he said in a radio interview. "It is therefore necessary to reconcile the nature of confession with the need to protect children."
Less than a day after his comments made waves, the spokeswoman for the French bishops clarified that they would not in fact seek to make any changes and that the seal of confession was "above the laws of the Republic" anyway. "One cannot change the canon law for France as it is international," Karine Dalle told the National Catholic Register. "A priest who today would violate t
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"Let's talk about the future. The election is past. It's been certified," said Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
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 A Republican on the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol on Sunday did not rule out issuing a subpoena for former President Donald Trump as it seeks to obtain information from his allies.
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 ABCThis week, Donald Trump caused some potentially catastrophic problems for his own party when he warned that Republicans "will not be voting" in 2022 or 2024 if they don't "solve" what he is now calling the "Presidential Election Fraud of 2020."
Or as Jimmy Kimmel put it Thursday night, "The angry orange baby is throwing another fit over the election he can't admit he lost."
After reading the bizarre statement, Kimmel laughed out loud, telling his audience, "I know, I'm confused also. It's like, did Nancy Pelosi write this for him?"
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano went out of his way to help advance former President Donald Trump's election lies: He spearheaded a "hearing" at a hotel in Gettysburg a few weeks after the 2020 election, where Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani made false claims about election fraud. He chartered buses to ferry his supporters to Washington on January 6. And he was briefly in charge of the Pennsylvania state Senate's partisan "audit" of the 2020 election.
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