It is not. California is not trying to find out more about child abuse. It is trying to eliminate the Catholic Church as a factor in peoples’ lives. There will be no such information forthcoming. Priests will not comply and Confessions will dry up as people worry that what they tell their priests will end up in police data banks and that fear will be all encompassing. It will not be limited to those who might confess to child abuse because if the seal can be broken for one thing it will be broken altogether very shortly. It is another argument for unmarried priests. Priests don’t have to worry about their families if they face jail time.
people worry that what they tell their priests will end up in police data banks