[timsbella]

A good priest would reveal a criminal, especially one harming a child.

A bad judge will only give him 60 days.

Welcome to New England, 2006.

[The_Republican]

What took this so long?

Why is this already not a law in all 50 states?

[karnage]

A good Catholic priest would urge the penitent to surrender himself - but cannot and must not go to the cops himself.

[Mrs. Don-o]

A good priest, a bad priest, ANY priest a absolutely forbidden to reveal what is said in confession. Absolutely. I can't remember the name, but there was a canonized saint/martyr who was executed by some king for not revealing information that the king urgently wanted to know.

The priest can insist, using the strongest terms, that the person in the confessional should tell the authorities himself; but the priest cannot do so.