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Tag Archives: Seal of confession
8 October 2011
A note to confessors about confessions and keeping your voices QUIET
I have had some encouraging email lately about people returning to the Sacrament of Penance after a long period. This sort of news makes continuing this blog worth the labor.
Also, some people send concerns about the way the sacrament is … Continue reading
18 August 2011
The most important thing I will ever write on this blog
This is the most important thing I will ever write on this blog. If I get nothing else through to any reader here, long-time visitor or new, I would want it to be this.
There is no sin that we … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, 1983 CIC can. 915, Emanations from Penumbras, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged abortion, can. 1398, confession, excommunication, reconciliation, sacrament of penance, Seal of confession
23 Comments
13 August 2011
UOMs UNITE!
His Hermeneuticalness Fr. Tim Finigan has a good explanation of the Seal of Confession over at his excellent blog. I’ll just drive you over there with this link: CLICK HERE NOW.
I was particularly pleased with Fr. Finigan’s post because he … Continue reading
22 July 2011
Ed Peters on attack on the Seal of Confession
The Canonical Defender, Prof. Ed Peters, canonist extraordinaire, has on his blog In The Light Of The Law, …
A note on proposals to require priests to violate the seal of confession
Concerning recent Irish and Australian proposals to require priests who, … Continue reading
Australia: A bill to force priests to break the Seal of Confession
After I posted the story on a legislative attempt in Ireland to force priests to break the Seal of Confession, I had a few emails suggesting that I was panicking, that such a thing would never happen, that this was … Continue reading
15 July 2011
Ireland: Law proposed to force priests to break the Seal of Confession
Biretta tips to Fr. Blake and to Sancte Pater who lead me to this story at The Irish Catholic and elsewhere.
Government proposal to break the seal of confession is without precedent
Thu, 14/07/2011 – 15:34
The Taoiseach, the Minister for Justice and … Continue reading
4 October 2010
Priest fired for porn may have protected Seal of Confession
Remember the movie I Confess? A priest’s nightmare. A murder confesses to a priest and then frames the priest with the murder.
I saw this on Catholic World News:
A priest who was fired from his teaching post at a Pennsylvania … Continue reading
21 May 2010
QUAERITUR: does the Seal of confession apply also to the penitent?
From a reader:
Except when he translates for or overhears another person’s confession, is a layman ever bound–like the priest–by the seal of Confession, such that he cannot mention either what he confessed or what he was told? I was not … Continue reading
22 April 2010
A case about violation of the Seal of Confession in the press
From the 1983 Code of Canon law 983 §1
The sacramental seal is inviolable; therefore it is absolutely forbidden for a confessor to betray in any way a penitent in words or in any manner and for any reason.
If a priest … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Biased Media Coverage, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged confession, Seal, Seal of confession
33 Comments
21 April 2010
Card. Castrillon praised that French bishop. Why? Something missing from the reporting?
Something has been bothering me in the now viral news story about the letter His Eminence Dario Card. Castrillon Hoyos wrote to the French Bishop Pierre Pican.
You know the facts of the situation.
A French priest Fr. Rene Bissey was a … Continue reading
Posted in Clerical Sexual Abuse of Children, The Drill
Tagged Bp. Pican, Card. Castrillon, confession, Fr. Bessey, Seal of confession
46 Comments
19 April 2010
Internal forum/confession and reporting crimes to the state
My friend Fr. Ray Blake, parish priest in Brighton at St. Mary Magdalen has a very good entry on his blog. To a degree it represents also some of my own reflections in the last few days.
Let’s have a look:
Cardinal … Continue reading
21 November 2009
Priest/penitent privilege and a state’s violation of the Seal
From ZENIT comes this about an attack on the Sacrament of Penance and the privilege of priests not to be forced by law to reveal confessions.
This is an interview. My emphases and comments.
Seal of Confession Goes on Trial
Church and State … Continue reading
