At 07:21 PM 5/22/2002 -0500, Chad Cooper wrote: <snippage> >>The Moral Question of the Day >> >>Because it is based upon religion, but recognized as a corporation by the >>government, should a church (or volunteer officials) be exempt from >>confidentiality laws protecting worshippers who confess crimes? Are they >>actually protected?
IIRC, Roman Catholic priests can not be compelled to repeat in a court of law what is said to them in the confessional. Outside of the confessional, a priest may repeat what is said to him as long as the conversation was not part of the Sacrament of Confession. john
