A judge has barred Washington from enforcing a state law that would have required Churches to report child abuse. The judge says the law infringed on freedom of religion
Judge blocks WA requirement for priests to report child abuse disclosed in confession • Washington State Standard
Catholics actually believe in Purgatory, where the priest saves your soul from damnation to Hell, you are still divinely punished before you enter Heaven. That is unless you get the apostolic pardon and sacrament of penance.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+9%3A1-8%2CMark+2%3A1-12&version=GW
Jesus absolves people of sins and gives men the ability to do so. Your disbelief in the ability does not influence the believers. If you have an issue with it you can always rant with the Unitarian Universalists.
I'm sure you thought that was relevant.
You consider it an abortion of justice yet they will still be divinely punished through purgation. Confession only prevents damnation to hell. Furthermore, your end sentence states Jesus would be appaled and you ranted about the church, but he did absolve sins and gave us the ability to do it.
You are incapable of withdrawing the plank from your own eye when it's pointed out. You just pretend there is a splinter in mine.
Either way, the law has spoken, the first amendment is upheld, and your opinion is not considered.
You're more concerned about your rights than what is right.