Christians told not to confess sex abuse secrets to Church of England clergy because they will tell the police. A penitent "shared with a priest information about ongoing abuse. In this case, the legal and moral position of the priest was called into question," he said. "It was therefore felt by the Diocesan Safeguarding Management Group that clergy must have clear guidance on how to manage situations where the seal of confession may be brought into conflict with their safeguarding responsibilities." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...not-confess-sex-abuse-secrets-church-england/ With all the interest in sex abuse cases in the UK at the moment at least we can see the clear advice given by the Church of England. Better to carry on abusing than put the church at risk of having to choose between reporting pedos to the police and keeping the secrets of sex abusers! Personally I see no moral dilemma, report the sicko and be damned! Perhaps when Tommy Robinson has finished his prison sentence for contempt of court he can turn his contempt towards the Church of England!
Yes, well, it's not the Roman Catholic Church which does absolutely guarantee the sanctity of the seal of the confessional. Any priest violating that seal is defrocked, period. But as long as one knows that under certain circumstances the Anglican seal of the confessional is conditional; I see no problem. Alternately if you really want to confess something illegal then just go to a Catholic priest and turn his hair a little grayer and increase his stomach ulcer condition by a degree. There are solutions.
god moves in mysterious ways.... Just a thought...do priests and indeed God have to opt into the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) in order to take confession? Is God in breach of the GDP provisions since he knows everything about everyone that ever existsed. Who then is the appointed data protection officer in Heaven...although Heaven is not in the EU it still seems applicable.... This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to: the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data by a controller not established in the Union, but in a place where Member State law applies by virtue of public international law.
