Updated: Seal of Confession threatened in wake of French clerical sexual abuse report
The report seems to blame the Catholic Church of France as an institution and aim at forcing the Church to break the seal of confession.
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Law passes in Australia requiring priests to break seal of confession, bishop protests
The law could result in faithful priests being jailed who refuse to comply.
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Another Australian state passes law requiring priests to break seal of Confession, report child abuse
'Many priests and bishops have publicly stated that they will go to jail before obeying these laws'
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Australian archbishop: We’re ‘unable’ to comply with law requiring priest to break seal of confession
The new Tasmanian bill on reporting child abuse 'will not strength protections ... but it will have the opposite effect.'
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Wisconsin archbishop sanctions priest who endorsed bill forcing clergy to break seal of confession
Fr. James E. Connell sued several states to remove legal protections for the seal of confession and recently wrote an op-ed endorsing a bill to repeal Delaware’s clergy-penitent privilege.
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Australian priests say they’ll risk jail to protect seal of confession from new law
Forcing priests to violate confidentiality would be ineffective as well as immoral, they warn.
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Diocese to U.S. Supreme Court: block decision forcing our priest to break seal of confession
'The Louisiana Supreme Court's ruling strikes a very hard blow against religious freedom,' the diocese said.
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Major UK report calls on priests to break seal of confession in reporting child sex abuse
Reporting child sex abuse ‘should not be subject to exceptions based on relationships of confidentiality, religious or otherwise,’ the inquiry wrote.
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US bishop: Clergy would go to jail rather than obey law forcing them to break seal of confession
Washington state is debating legislation that would attempt to force priests to break the secrecy of the confessional for cases of child abuse.
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Mary's Immaculate Conception draws the faithful to contemplate Jesus' forthcoming nativity
It was due to His own infinite sanctity that God should suspend, in Mary's instance, the law which His divine justice had passed upon all the children of Adam.
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