Tag: Seal of Confession
On religious freedom, Sydney’s young Catholics surprise and impress me
Many of Sydney’s young Catholics were in their early teens when the abuse crisis and Royal Commission was at its peak. As I found out at the “Fidelis” event run by Sydney Catholic Youth, older, jaded Catholics like me have surprises in store when addressing our youth.
Simcha Fisher: Children’s confessions are just as real as adults’
Children's confessions deserve just as much respect
Recently, I've come across several instances of people taking the seal of confession lightly. Not priests, thank God...
Prelate fronts WA inquiry
Scrapping the seal impossible and could cause harm
Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has appeared before a WA parliamentary committee to defend the seal of...
Monica Doumit: We all need to protect the Seal
I tell people sometimes that the Second Coming will happen in either Ontario or Victoria. It may be more of a joke than a...
Monica Doumit: Abusers: do they confess? Probably
A couple of weeks ago, Natasha Marsh wrote a story highlighting a current review likely to recommend abolishing the Seal of Confession in the...
Confession seal crisis deepens
Australian Attorneys-General consider removing confessional privilege
The Council of Australian Attorneys-General has moved to consider introducing laws across the nation legally requiring priests to break...
Confession must never be violated, says Vatican
https://youtu.be/fPyOuQifQpQ
Absolute secrecy of the Confessional
In the light of "a worrying negative prejudice" against the Catholic Church, Pope Francis ordered the publication of a document...
Challenges to Confession seal attributed to abuse scandals
https://youtu.be/pUtHTYSDjRc
Conversion in the Confessional
For centuries, the Catholic Church has maintained that what a penitent says to a priest in the confessional is strictly confidential,...
Priestly martyrdom to uphold confession isn’t new
https://youtu.be/tPnOL6khYCs
Around the world, governments push to break the seal of Confession
A symbol of the historical commitment priests have to the seal of confession greets...
James Parker: New threat to seal of confession
Spare some prayers for the confessional seal in Western Australia.
WA’s Minister for Child Protection, Simone McGurk, recently announced a law to force Catholic and...
California bishop: ‘No priest may obey this law’
Bishop will accept arrest before breaking seal
Bishop Michael Barber SJ of the Diocese of Oakland, California, has said he would sooner accept arrest and...
