Good for him. Render to Caesar what is Caesars,
but to God what is God’s.
Meh, if someone confesses that he has raped a child, and he doesn’t call the cops, he SHOULD be arrested. That’s all good and fine to fix the rapists soul but there are limits.
To me this is no different than some Jehovahs Witness refusing lifesaving treatment for a kid.
It’s just pig headed to insist on the right to keep child molesting secrets away from the cops.
“Priests who break the seal of confession face the penalty of excommunication, according to Catholic Church law.”
Yeah baloney. I have watched a parade of communists, homo advocates, lesbo nuns, pedophiles, DNC politicians pushing for abortion etc. yet, I haven’t seen any excommunications happen so far.
So turning in some guy sodomizing a kid. THAT is where they draw the line? Anyone think Jesus would just say it’s cool and help the pervert escape temporal justice?
Good for him. I’m a Protestant but don’t care, it’s the principle of the thing. Let’s see if they start arresting priests. Maybe they can subpoena the Pope.
I’m sure there are extremely long queues of child rapists and abusers waiting to confess preventing normal people from confessing. Unless they start badging people confessing it would seem pretty difficult to ID who perpetuated the sin. And for funnies, one could pull a “swatting” on someone else by confessing to some horrid child rape using someone else’s name.
I have yet to read an account from a supporter of this law of how it is supposed to be enforced. I can only think of a handful of ways:
Sting operations with recordings, or hearsay if that is the standard.
Actual child abusers claiming or having recordings of themselves confessing their crimes as insurance to trade for lesser sentencing in case the are caught
Using the breaking of this law in civil cases for financial settlements
Is the standard just hearsay or do you have to have a recording? Because the priest can only respond one way—they can’t even confirm a confession took place much less what was said. I can’t see they have any way to defend from false claims no matter what, at least civilly.
Freegards
If the law can respect attorney-client privelige, it can make room for confessional.
The next domino to fall will be finding political dissidents and those who oppose government policies. People speak to confessors about their fears too.