Father Brendan Lee's Words of Wisdom

By Father Brendan Lee
Updated April 20 2018 - 12:44pm, first published April 19 2018 - 2:30pm
CONFESSIONAL RIGHTS: If the Pope allowed the seal of confession to be broken, even once, the seal of confession would be destroyed forever, says Father Brendan Lee.
CONFESSIONAL RIGHTS: If the Pope allowed the seal of confession to be broken, even once, the seal of confession would be destroyed forever, says Father Brendan Lee.

Following on from last week, and in musing on many of the comments made in response to my last column, I think people’s desire to end the seal of confession is for the majority motivated firstly by a loving desire to protect children, and secondly a desire to see pedophiles and their protectors punished out of a disgust for pedophilia. These are both very good desires that I hold myself. Yet, breaking the seal of confession would not achieve either and would actually be counter-productive.

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