I agree with the commentators. How is a priest supposed to denounce a anonymous guy in the confessional whom he cannot see? This proposal, among much else, exposes the abysmal standard of public administration in the UK. But the frenzy around any discussion of child abuse confuses clear thinking.
I agree with the commentators. How is a priest supposed to denounce a anonymous guy in the confessional whom he cannot see? This proposal, among much else, exposes the abysmal standard of public administration in the UK. But the frenzy around any discussion of child abuse confuses clear thinking.
Are all lawyers expected to denounce their clients who reveal such offences? Are all vicars, imams, rabbis etc expected to denounce people who have approached them for spiritual help? They may not have a sacrament seal around their conversations. But morally I think that they are also entitled to legal protection. Are children going to be safer if their abuser has nowhere to turn?
I am surprised that no one has mentioned the 1955 Hitchcock thriller "I confess". Hitchcock went to the same school as the late Cardinal Heenan, Archbishop of Westminster. It almost begs for a remake where a priest is falsely suspected of child abuse and can save himself only by breaching the seal.
I agree with the commentators. How is a priest supposed to denounce a anonymous guy in the confessional whom he cannot see? This proposal, among much else, exposes the abysmal standard of public administration in the UK. But the frenzy around any discussion of child abuse confuses clear thinking.
Are all lawyers expected to denounce their clients who reveal such offences? Are all vicars, imams, rabbis etc expected to denounce people who have approached them for spiritual help? They may not have a sacrament seal around their conversations. But morally I think that they are also entitled to legal protection. Are children going to be safer if their abuser has nowhere to turn?
I am surprised that no one has mentioned the 1955 Hitchcock thriller "I confess". Hitchcock went to the same school as the late Cardinal Heenan, Archbishop of Westminster. It almost begs for a remake where a priest is falsely suspected of child abuse and can save himself only by breaching the seal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Confess_(film)