{"id":9818,"date":"2017-08-15T12:33:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T12:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=9818"},"modified":"2017-08-15T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T12:34:16","slug":"australian-archbishop-rejects-violation-of-confession-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/australian-archbishop-rejects-violation-of-confession-secrecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Archbishop Rejects Violation Of Confession Secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>From The New York Times:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/08\/16\/world\/16oz-confession-1\/16oz-confession-1-master768.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"273\" data-total-count=\"273\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>It\u2019s confidential and considered sacred \u2014 a conversation strictly between a confessor and priest, never to be divulged. The secrecy of the confessional, a centuries-old sacrament, is taken so seriously that some priests would die before disclosing what has been shared.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"232\" data-total-count=\"505\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne, who as president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference represents all Roman Catholic clergy in the country, said Tuesday that he would rather go to jail than breach the seal of confession.\u00a0\u201cThe laws in our country and in many other countries recognize the special nature of confession as part of the freedom of religion, which has to be respected,\u201d Archbishop Hart told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em> <strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/15\/world\/australia\/sex-abuse-catholic-church-confession.html\">For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/06\/04\/tropical-rains-possible-tornadoes-threaten-half-us.html?intcmp=hpbt1\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">]<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em> <strong>[Return to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/\">www.spiritdaily.com]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Michael%20H.%20Brown\/Documents\/My%20Webs\/indexhold.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/angellily.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"><em>Pray always for purity and love<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">+++<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"church\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1502800430\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Australian Archbishop Rejects Violation Of Confession Secrecy\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: It\u2019s confidential and considered sacred \u2014 a conversation strictly between a confessor and priest, never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[738,1111,1143],"class_list":{"0":"post-9818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-church","7":"tag-australia","8":"tag-bishop","9":"tag-confession","10":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}