[Salvation]

What about the Seal of Confession?

A priest can’t reveal the contents of any confession.

[TaxPayer2000]

And what if it your child being abused?

[stanne]

‘What about the Seal of Confession?‘

By definition it would be gone. This would sets precedent.

No separation of church and state.

People would stop going to confession

State would replace God.

[piusv]

What if the penitent confessed illicit/sinful sex without mentioning that the sex was with children? What Novus Ordo priest asks the penitent with whom they had illicit sexual contact with anyway?

Even if a priest asked additional, probing questions, that is much more likely to happen in the traditional confessional, not the Novus Ordo confessional. And as TexasKamaAina said, the penitent is anonymous anyway.

[arthurus]

If his law passes and surely it will, confessions will fall off. If the state can require breaking the seal on one thing it will rapidly spread to other things.Any priest who complies will cease to be a confessor.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Yeah ultimately that one would get tossed under First Amendment grounds.