..Force priests to violate confession seal..

[Quiddity]

"Denver Newsroom, Jan 13, 2021 / 09:01 pm MT (CNA).- Three North Dakota state legislators introduced a bill this week that would oblige Catholic priests to violate the seal of confession in cases of confirmed or suspected child abuse, on penalty of imprisonment or heavy fines."

North Dakota bill would force priests to violate confession seal in abuse cases

IF this somehow manages to go through, I'm curious to see how in the world they are going to enforce it. This can set precedence to invading just about any other facet of any religion, not just Catholicism.

How much more private can you get in the confessional.

 

[Regiomontanus]

"Denver Newsroom, Jan 13, 2021 / 09:01 pm MT (CNA).- Three North Dakota state legislators introduced a bill this week that would oblige Catholic priests to violate the seal of confession in cases of confirmed or suspected child abuse, on penalty of imprisonment or heavy fines."

North Dakota bill would force priests to violate confession seal in abuse cases

IF this somehow manages to go through, I'm curious to see how in the world they are going to enforce it. This can set precedence to invading just about any other facet of any religion, not just Catholicism.

How much more private can you get in the confessional.

Surely it would be appealed to the USSC.

 

[Quiddity]

Surely it would be appealed to the USSC.

You don't even have to be Catholic to know how serious we take the confessional. It will not even reach any judiciary body within the Catholic Church. They have no authority to change it because it can't be changed; not this.

 

[Estro Felino]

The so called professional confidentiality is applied not only to priests...but also to psychiatrists, psychologists, lawyers...

 

[Quiddity]

The so called professional confidentiality is applied not only to priests...but also to psychiatrists, psychologists, lawyers...

If memory serves me, I believe confidentiality can be breached under certain conditions in those other fields.

 

[metis]

"Denver Newsroom, Jan 13, 2021 / 09:01 pm MT (CNA).- Three North Dakota state legislators introduced a bill this week that would oblige Catholic priests to violate the seal of confession in cases of confirmed or suspected child abuse, on penalty of imprisonment or heavy fines."

North Dakota bill would force priests to violate confession seal in abuse cases

IF this somehow manages to go through, I'm curious to see how in the world they are going to enforce it. This can set precedence to invading just about any other facet of any religion, not just Catholicism.

How much more private can you get in the confessional.

What these same people don't seem to get is that if the confessional is no longer private, people with serious problems, criminal or not, will simply stop going. Thus, there's nothing to be gained but something to be lost.

 

[Regiomontanus]

You don't even have to be Catholic to know how serious we take the confessional. It will not even reach any judiciary body within the Catholic Church. They have no authority to change it because it can't be changed; not this.

I hear you brother. It is unacceptable.