Home›Sources›Church Leaders Not Bound to Report Sexual Abuse Confessions, Arizona Supreme Court RulesSourcesChurch Leaders Not Bound to Report Sexual Abuse Confessions, Arizona Supreme Court RulesReligion News ServiceCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Church Leaders Not Bound to Report Sexual Abuse Confessions, Arizona Supreme Court Rules." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/rns-arizona-clergy-confession-ruling-2026.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Church Leaders Not Bound to Report Sexual Abuse Confessions, Arizona Supreme Court Rules. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/rns-arizona-clergy-confession-ruling-2026Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-church-leaders-not-bound-to-report-sexua, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Church Leaders Not Bound to Report Sexual Abuse Confessions, Arizona Supreme Court Rules}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/rns-arizona-clergy-confession-ruling-2026}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA Religion News Service report, published 4 August 2026, on the Arizona Supreme Court's unanimous 30 July 2026 ruling in Doe v. Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, holding that clergy in Arizona are not legally required to report a congregation member's confessed abuse of a minor when it is disclosed through confession or another confidential religious communication. The case grew out of a 2020 Cochise County lawsuit brought by the children of a church member who told his bishop in a 2011 confession that he had abused his young daughter.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (15 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested2Reliability tier 2: a national religion-focused wire service's contemporaneous account of a state supreme court's published opinion, naming the case, the holding and the opinion's author, corroborated by Arizona Mirror's independent same-week coverage of the same ruling.NotesWell-attestedTier 2: the source for the case name, the unanimous result and the opinion's author, cross checked against Arizona Mirror's independent reporting on the same ruling.CitationPublisherWell-attestedReligion News ServicePublication YearWell-attested2026URLWell-attestedhttps://religionnews.com/2026/08/04/church-leaders-not-bound-to-report-sexual-abuse-confession-arizona-supreme-court-rules/Source TypeWell-attestednewsCross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithArizona, States & Territories Well-attested This source names Arizona directly: "published 4 August 2026, on the Arizona Supreme Court's unanimous 30 July 2026 ruling in Doe v."Source Church Leaders Not Bound to Report Sexual Abuse Confessions, Arizona Supreme Court Rulestier 2Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 1 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.Denominations, 1 claims: 1 connected.Well-attested12Abuse Inquiries and Response PoliciesArizona Supreme Court Ruling on the Clergy-Confession Reporting ExemptionSourcesChurch Leaders Not Bound to Report Sexual Abuse Confessions, Arizona Supreme Court RulesHolds1SourcesChurch Leaders Not Bound to Report Sexual Abuse Confessions, Arizona Supreme Court RulesConnected1DenominationsLatter-day Saints (Mormonism)General References1Abuse Inquiries and Response PoliciesArizona Supreme Court Ruling on the Clergy-Confession Reporting ExemptionComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year