Every nightmare predator is coming to life with these Hitleresque people.
This is about persecuting the faithful, not helping children. Any priest hearing such a confession would obviously withhold absolution from the penitent until he turned himself in. This is the Taoiseach as Henry VIII.
Leave the confession the same but change one part so sins are silently confessed to the Lord. That way the priest has nothing to tell.
This is what comes of incrementalism and compromise; it never should have gotten this far. If the Church had had the courage to draw the line on homosexuality, abortion, the welfare state, and a host of other moral issues, the marxists wouldn’t be battering at the doors of the confessional today.
Better late than never, but this should serve as a lesson to everyone that there is no negotiation with evil that results in good.
“Why make this one the only crime to be reported?” Fr. Flannery wondered.
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If they break the seal, then they should do it for all crimes, not just this one.
Also, I find it difficult to think that a child molester would confess considering they usually don’t think what they are doing is wrong much less a sin.
Better to be in jail temporaily on earth than to lose heaven’s eternal life by disclosing the contents of Confession.
God bless them and grant them strength and endurance.