[TSgt]

Rape children all you want and cover it up, just don’t break the seal of confession.

[ArrogantBustard]

That is an astonishingly ignorant remark.

[LonePalm]

Do you feel the same way about Attorney/Client and Doctor/Patient privilege?

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Campion]

Rape children all you want and cover it up, just don’t break the seal of confession.

Go tell it to the priest in Knoxville who got suspended from all active ministry practically within hours after his bishop found out about abuse that happened 30 years ago. That just happened a couple of days ago.

You'll notice that we were down to *six* abuse allegations involving crimes against minors in 2009 in the US. Somebody's doing something about it, and it's evidently working.

[Claud]

Rape children all you want and cover it up, just don’t break the seal of confession.

Cute. You got your little rhetorical juxtaposition there, and you only had to murder the truth to do it.

Who the Dickens said, anywhere, anytime, that you could *rape children* all you wanted???

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Rape children all you want and cover it up, just don’t break the seal of confession."

To whom do you attribute this statement?

[Antoninus]

Rape children all you want and cover it up, just don’t break the seal of confession.

You have no clue of what you speak.

You should apologize for making such a profoundly ignorant statement.

[murron]

If a person commits murder, and confesses it to a priest, and the police question the priest as to if the person confessed to the murder or not, the priest is forbidden to say anything. He is even forbidden from acknowledging that he heard the person’s confession. If the person is confessing it, he is supposed to be sorry for what he’s done and promises to never do it again. But imagine if you went to confession, and couldn’t trust that the priest is not going to tell what you confessed to another.