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>>>23063488 ‘No exceptions’: UK moves to crush sacred seal of confession in abuse cases
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The Crime and Policing Bill, now at Report Stage in the House of Commons, does not include criminal penalties for failure to report. Instead, it allows for professional sanctions or disqualification from working with children—effectively ending the ministry of accused priests.
This move comes at the same time of similar attempts elsewhere, including the USA’s Washington state and Hong Kong.
The Church has long held that no earthly authority may compel a priest to violate the confessional seal.
The Roman Catechism teaches that priests must observe “a perpetual and religious silence concerning all the sins confessed to them” and that penitents should never fear that their sins will be revealed.
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