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First-term Democratic lawmaker wants exception to …

11/1/2023
PHOENIX — A first-term Democratic lawmaker wants to enact an exception to state laws that allow clergy to refuse to disclose what was told to them in confession or similar confidential communication.

Arizona State Supreme Court to consider law protecting …

10/25/2023
PHOENIX — A lawsuit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could become the legal basis for the state Court of Appeals to consider — and void — a statute that protects members of the clergy from disclosing an adherent’s confession of child molestation.

Without oversight, scores of accused priests commit …

10/4/2019
Nearly 1,700 priests and other clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living under the radar with little to no oversight from religious authorities or law enforcement, decades after the first wave of the church abuse scandal roiled U.S. dioceses, an Associated Press investigation has found.