I’m starting to think these people really don’t like us. I mean, what did we do to them?
George Neumayr (I always feel like I’m spelling his name wrong but I’m not, I checked) at the American Spectator writes:
The Associated Press published a piece this week casting the confessional seal as sinister. That its reporters would even think to turn a prosaic defense of this venerable privilege into a scandal is a measure of our secularized times. Only until recently would anyone dare suggest that priests be coerced into revealing what they hear in confession. That cause over the years has been restricted to a handful of rabidly atheistic politicians. But now, apparently, the AP has joined it.
To treat the confessional seal as a scandalous “loophole” is a grim joke. The survival of the sacrament of confession obviously depends on its inviolable confidentiality. This really doesn’t even require explanation any more than the lawyer–client privilege needs explanation. Yet the AP treats the Catholic Church’s upholding of this centuries-long privilege as somehow disturbing and uniquely newsworthy, headlining its piece: “Churches defend clergy loophole in child sex abuse reporting.”
The confessional seal belongs to the Church’s essential exercise of religious freedom, which is clearly protected under the First Amendment. But the AP spins the seal as a nefarious defense of sex abusers in particular. One of the article’s subheads inanely reads, “Sex abuse confessions shielded by clergy-penitent privilege.” Since the confessional seal applies to all confessions, such a subhead is meaningless and misleading. One could say the same about any crime or sin. To make it about sex abuse is a crude smear.
This is almost as disgusting as Newsweek saying the rosary is the new AR-15.
Is there any other group that our elites feel they can attack without any consequence or merit?
October 3, 2022 at 7:36 am
Hey, I take this as a sign that we are doing something right. We have stood up to the right of life at all stages, for traditional marriage, and freedom and yet we are being attacked for all of this. Many Protestant churches have caved to the woke secular ideology and they are not being attacked constantly. All of the martyrs have gone to their death for the Truth so why shouldn’t we?
October 3, 2022 at 12:17 pm
Confession shoildn’t exist. Just pray to God. Same with shrinks. Shrinks should be banned as they are just auricular congession which is evil. Right? No man or woman or trans thing, whether priest or shrink, can forgive sins, only God can forgive sins.
October 3, 2022 at 2:32 pm
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October 3, 2022 at 12:35 pm
If a woman confesses to having an abortion the priests should turn her in in states where she would be punished. Otherwise the RCC is not pro-life but covering for abortionists.
October 3, 2022 at 12:39 pm
In both abortion and child rape the RCC should report it to the authorities and priests should be arrested for non-compliance with this.
Confession is a monastic institution for celibate monks whose sins are not saying all the Psalms they are required in a day. Its an absurdity for the general world because hearing the dirty sex perversions of the common people will turn the priests into perverts and because the confessional seal makes the priest an accomplice to rape and murder and all manner of vile things.