[Gay State Conservative]

If lawyers can have “confidentiality” privileges so can priests.

[17th Miss Regt]

“I believe that this is an absolutely sacrosanct communication of the highest order,”

He is absolutely correct here. The seal of the confessional is sacrosanct.

[Gay State Conservative]

Also,how can it be proven that the priest knew the identity of the confessor? A priest can truthfully testify that he didn't know who was confessing to a particular sin and also that he wouldn't recognize the voice either.

[arthurus]

Any priest that isn’t should have his faculties removed, be “laicized,” as it were.