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Is the Priest allowed to tell police about a serial killer after hearing his confession?
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No, a priest is forbidden under the most severe penalties from every telling or even acknowledging anything told to him in confession without the express permissionof the penitent. This secrecy is acknowledged in most civilized countries except England, and countries based on English Common Law. But even then a priest would never violate the seal without risking his own eternal damnation.
from
Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon,
S.J.
Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980
Seal of Confession. The grave duty of keeping absolutely secret all sins that are told in sacramental confession and anything else that is told by the penitent and is related to the confession. It is an obligation binding in the natural law, the divine law of Christ, and in the positive law of the church. It binds the confessor and any other person who in any way discovers what was confessed. Under no circumstances may any of this information be revealed unless the penitent freely gives permission.
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