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Spiritual confessions have been shielded from government eyes, police investigations and courts for hundreds of years. Here’s why.

The tension between doctrines about confessions and the impulse to protect children through mandatory reporting laws raises important legal, societal and religious questions about how religious leaders try to focus on and prioritize rescuing victims of abuse while also providing spiritual help to the person who has confessed.

Inside Frank Plummer’s brain The legendary scientist turned to highly experimental deep brain stimulation to treat his own alcoholism. He’d devoted his whole life to science, he joked. Why not his brain, too? The research he took part in is revolutionizing how we treat the world’s most stigmatized illnesses. January 26, 2021 Plummer was a leading expert in infectious diseases; his death is a significant loss for Canada as we navigate this pandemic, says Kennelly (John Woods/CP) The first time Jo Kennelly met Frank Plummer, she barely noticed him. It was 2006. She was the Ottawa-based ...

December 11, 2020 In her new book, "Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way," University of Rochester professor Mical Raz argues that "Biased viewpoints regarding race, class, and gender played a powerful role shaping perceptions of child abuse." (Getty Images) A shift starting in the late 1960s has targeted poor families with unnecessary investigations and child removals at the expense of services, argues Mical Raz. Black children are removed from their families at much greater rates than any other race or ethnicity in this country. At the same time the shee...