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More specifically, Washington State (and most other states) have mandated reporter laws regarding child abuse. If your profession is on the list, you are a mandated reporter. Construction workers are an example of people not mandated reporters. If they suspect abuse they should say something but aren't legally mandated. Teachers, nurses, and clergy are examples of mandated reporters. They have to say something. The carve out is if the priest learns the information during a sacramental confession. Outside of the confessional, he still reports. But because people stop going to confession when priests don't have the seal of the confessional, churches maintain that requirement. Child abusers aren't going to confess to someone who will report that confession to the government so it isn't like this law was going to stop any abuse. In fact, more abuse might happen when perverts have no one to turn to when they need someone to deal with their messed up psychology.

There's a great Hitchcock movie about murder and confession and a priest who cannot protect his own name because of the seal of the confessional. I highly recommend watching:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Confess_(film)

The seal of the confessional is so strict that if a man confessed putting poison in the communion wine before Mass, after leaving the confessional the priest could not act on that information, even if it meant drinking the wine at Mass and dying.

I've seen their videos. I feel bad for the kids. Not the wife. She's there with him for the same stupid reasons. The kids are obviously suffering, especially the oldest.

It makes sense for Canada to preserve its steel industry, economics aside.

I get told that whenever I run into people from high school, unless I've got my beard. My beard is gray enough to show my age.

That pavement represents a lot of government subsidies. Big highway doesn't exist without big government.

Did they need to be told?

We should entertain the idea that this is the effect, not the cause, of the problem. That we have cause and effect in reverse.

Just use RSS to follow specific channels.

I think you may be misinformed. Headline: Harris leads Trump among Catholic voters, per EWTN News/RealClear poll.

As a Catholic and as a moderator of https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/Catholic, I think this is a good move by the bishops. The Catholic Church is not defined by modern political divisions. We have priests walking with immigrants to court to discourage ICE from kidnapping immigrants, we have prayer groups outside most abortion clinics, we have protestors at every execution (capital punishment), we are told by our bishops to care for the poor, both personally and through the government we elect, and we are told that the right to life is a fundamental issue. We oppose the legal recognition of same-gender marriage and the acceptance of gender as a self-imposed construct. My bishop has helped promote legislation targeting payday lenders and other usurers while also doing the same in opposition to assisted suicide. We are a mixed bag. We are on both sides of the aisle. And both parties really want to gain our vote. If we self-declare an allegiance to either party, that harms our position. We risk becoming like the partisans on both sides who, as we often see, change their views to fit what's convenient for the political party.

Pete Hegseth probably blocked aid on his own authority without asking President Trump first. This is a correction of that decision. Unfortunately, Trump prizes loyalty even above being in sync on policy issues.

That's what my friends and family use!

If they wanted to cut pollution, they'd ban all cars from the bridge and make it public transit + bike only. Cars aren't idling when there's no cars.

Exactly.

We will know late August, when the CCP meets and the shakeup is supposedly going to take place. IMO, the time between now and then is dangerous as Xi might make an extreme act to hold on to power.

Newsmax is a biased source. They are only unreliable when that bias gets in their way or when they report on a topic they know nothing about. For example, they are actually good about reporting the uninteresting parts of military operations and conduct because they have a lot of reporters who are former military. Once their military reporting approaches a popular topic, then the bias kicks-in. Newsmax also has a lot more people familiar with liturgical issues within the Catholic Church. When reporting on religion, they are a good source, until it hits on one of those issues that tries to force religion to fit in a left-right framework. Here, where they talk about internal politics concerning the Latin Mass, Newsmax is actually a good source for information.

am looking for missed interest payments in the immediate future

US debt is in US dollars and the US can print as many as they like. Not making an interest payment would be a political decision, not an economic decision, and has nothing to do with the level of debt or rate of interest. All historic cases of hyperinflation involved countries whose debt was denominated in a foreign currency. The US will have inflation but it will not have hyperinflation.

Also, there will be no "BRICs currency" as they have nothing in common aside from a vague sense of alienation from the US-built world economic system. Infighting will break apart anything they try before it gets off the ground. These countries are more suspicious of each other than they are of the United States. As such, they have brief periods of limited cooperation followed by nothing or something worse than nothing.

If you go to college, the degree you get also matters. Professions requiring a degree "just because" is gone. Now the only degrees worthwhile are those where that's the only way into a specific profession, like medicine.

How's public transit in your area? If you had a plan b for bad weather days, that'll make it a lot easier.