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Washington bill would jail priests for not breaking Seal of Confession: ‘No exemption’

A Democratic state senator in Washington wants to mandate that priests commit an excommunicable offense or face jail time for not breaking the sacred Seal of Confession.

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Matt Lamb

• Feb 4, 2025Feb 5, 2025

Montana bill would jail priests for 5 years if they refuse to violate seal of confession

A bill proposed by Montana Democrats would jail Catholic priests for upholding the confessional seal, to which they are bound by Canon Law. Catholic League criticized the bill as ‘an egregious violation of the First Amendment.’

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Matt Lamb

• Jan 22, 2025

Montana kills bill to jail priests for 5 years for not revealing what they hear in counseling

A Montana bill to jail priests for up to five years for not violating the Seal of Confession appears to have died in committee. The vote is a victory for the religious freedom of Catholic priests and the laity.

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Matt Lamb

• Jan 31, 2025Jan 31, 2025

Montana bill would still jail priests 5 years for not revealing what they hear in counseling

A Montana bill to jail priests for up to five years for not violating the Seal of Confession still puts them in legal jeopardy and removes some protections, even after being amended. Still, the Montana Catholic Conference supports it.

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Matt Lamb

• Jan 29, 2025Jan 29, 2025

Why the Church’s enemies hate the Immaculate Conception

By declaring Our Lady to be so free from pride, sensuality and the desire for anything Revolutionary, the proclamation of the Immaculate Conception affirmed that she was utterly Counter-Revolutionary. This only inflamed the Revolutionary hatred all the more.

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Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

• Jan 23, 2025Jan 23, 2025

Why are US bishops attacking Trump's mass deportation plans?

With Trump’s strict immigration policies, the USCCB and its cohorts Catholic Charities and Catholic Social Services collectively stand to lose nearly $2.4 billion over the next four years, a sum that pew collections are unlikely to replace.

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Vicki Yamasaki

• Jan 23, 2025

St. John the Beloved's apostolic labors did not interfere with his care of the Blessed Virgin Mary

So long as Jesus judged the Blessed Virgin Mary's visible presence on the earth to be necessary for the consolidation of his Church, so long did John enjoy the immense happiness of being permitted to treat her as his most beloved Mother.

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Dom Prosper Guéranger

• Jan 3, 2025Jan 3, 2025

North Dakota legislature drops bill threatening ‘sacred Seal of Confession’

SB2180 sought to amend a state law regarding mandatory reporting of abuse or neglect of children or vulnerable adults, not excepting information a priest had learned during confession.

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Dorothy Cummings McLean

• Feb 4, 2021Jun 18, 2021

California bill forces priests to violate the seal of confession

The Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act would essentially turn clergy into mandatory government informants.

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Martin M. Barillas

• May 16, 2019Jun 18, 2021

These amazing hero priests died defending the seal of confession

The Western judicial tradition has always respected the seal of the confessional, but the process of secularization is changing the situation.

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Roberto de Mattei

• Jan 3, 2019Jun 18, 2021

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Washington bill would jail priests for not breaking Seal of Confession: ‘No exemption’

Montana bill would jail priests for 5 years if they refuse to violate seal of confession

Montana kills bill to jail priests for 5 years for not revealing what they hear in counseling

Montana bill would still jail priests 5 years for not revealing what they hear in counseling

Why the Church’s enemies hate the Immaculate Conception

St. John the Beloved's apostolic labors did not interfere with his care of the Blessed Virgin Mary

North Dakota legislature drops bill threatening ‘sacred Seal of Confession’

California bill forces priests to violate the seal of confession

These amazing hero priests died defending the seal of confession