[ifinnegan]

It’s not a true confession if they don’t face the consequences.

Confession is not a get off scott free with no guilt scam, is it?

[o-n-money]

It’s the slippery slope. Started when they made Trump’s lawyers testify against him.

[JPII Be Not Afraid]

Fr. Richard Heilman said if they get rid of face to face confession that would alleviate this problem.

[Just mythoughts]

Sooo ... criminal activity is protected? Guess what ... God keeps the perfect record and He will bring judgment... regardless of what some denomination claims. Get ready for it.

[faithhopecharity]

The end of the confessional if the priests are required to report what you say to Caesar and his law enforcement or prosecutorial minions.

[agere_contra]

Wow.

A lot of you want to criminalise access to God’s mercy.

Whom do you really serve?

People do, or are tempted to do, the most appalling things.

Some of them, driven by horror of what they have done, or what they contemplate doing, will lay their wicked compulsions before Christ.

If they do this, they do not magically become immune to prosecution. How can any of you be confused on this point?

These malefactors expose their sinful souls to God, and repent. Or they don’t repent, and their confession is a lie.

In either event, what business is it of Government? Why would FReepers demand that our relationship with God be policed by the State?

[Clemenza]

I have zero respect for anyone who accords instant respect and reverence for the cassock and collar set. Thomas Jefferson was right about clerical-fetishists.

[oldbill]

Figured it wouldn’t take long before the anti-Catholic bigots and the theologically ignorant would chime in on this one.

Now let’s ask them if they want to throw out all them other Privileges, like husband-wife, attorney-client, doctor-patient, etc.

[NurdlyPeon]

This is the camels nose in the tent. If you let the nose in, you might as well accept that the whole camel is going to be in there eventually.

[sphinx]

I'd be ok with breaking the confessional seal … as long as we also revoked all attorney client privilege. In fact, let's do it retroactively and start charging criminal defense lawyers as criminal co-conspirators. Once we've done that, let's go after medical privacy, including psychologists, psychiatrists, and all therapists.

That's a thought experiment, not a serious suggestion. But it's something that should be raised whenever the left tries to attack traditional and well established privacy rights.

[Stravinsky]

California is trying to destroy Christianity, in all its forms.

[Jim Noble]

I wonder if people here, and elsewhere, realize just how radical the sitting legislature in Sacramento has become.

It would not surprise me one bit if, within five years, Catholicism as it is currently organized and practiced is outlawed in California, to be replaced by a State Church as exists in China.

[Marchmain]

First step on a slippery slope.