Alan Shatter, Ireland’s Minister for Justice, climbdown over breaking seal of confession
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Alan Shatter, Ireland’s Minister for Justice, has admitted that despite voicing his adamant commitment in July to force priests to break the seal of confession that legislation released this autumn will not include any reference to the sacrament of Confession.
Tags: Christianity, Church Life, Law Moral Ethical, Politics
September 13th, 2011 at 11:25 am
Even to a non-religious person such as myself this was always a bonkers idea, and I’m glad to see they have finally realised this. Even if this was passed into law, it would be unenforceable unless confessions were monitored by a 3rd party. That in itself is a good reason to scrap this idea!