Re: Catholics Could Lose Seal of Confession

[Bradford DeLong]

But when the Knights Templar were suppressed by Philip the Fair of France and Pope Clement V in 1307, one of the charges was that the Templars confessed only to each other and not to other priests--so that nobody outside the order knew what horrible and foul things were going on within the order.

So it would seem that the "not under any circumstances be divulged" is less than seven centuries old...

:-)


Brad DeLong

http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/1/25/141548

The seal of confessional, which guarantees that whatever a penitent
confesses may not under any circumstances be divulged by the confessor, is
under attack...



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