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camcil | 9 months ago

The Church's side is simple: this is a sacrament and the information heard cannot be used at all by the priest, for anything- whatsoever, without exception.

"Given the delicacy and greatness of this ministry and the respect due to persons, the Church declares that every priest who hears confessions is bound under very severe penalties to keep absolute secrecy regarding the sins that his penitents have confessed to him. He can make no use of knowledge that confession gives him about penitents' lives. This secret, which admits of no exceptions, is called the "sacramental seal," because what the penitent has made known to the priest remains "sealed" by the sacrament." [CCC 1467]

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BobaFloutist|9 months ago

So if someone confesses that they have made concrete, actionable plans to shoot up a school and have the guns and they're still planning to do it but they want forgiveness for their actions so far, the priest is supposed to just sit tight?

Or if they confess "Yeah I put a bomb under this church and it's going to go off in five minutes, but wait don't go I have more to confess" the priest is supposed to just sit there and let them finish and not make any efforts to leave or even cause others to evacuate?

Or if someone says "I was part of a plan to assassinate the pope, there's a guy scaling the Sistine Chapel with a sniper rifle right now but I feel pretty bad about it" to a priest in the Vatican who just needs to holler to prevent the pope being assassinated, he's supposed to just sit there and wait for God to make his choices?