No

If a person confesses to shoplifting minutes before Mass and then the priest who absolved you gives a sermon on shoplifting....is that breaking the seal of confession?

Usually if the sin is a habitual sin that the penitent is trying to overcome as best as he can, and the Priest intends to give a sermon on matters pertaining to that sin, the Priest tells the penitent that he will give the sermon but that this was not motivated by the penitent in question or anyone in particular.

Good priests do not give sermons that target particular individuals. Unfortunately in traddieland the contrary is often the case: Dolan's odious sermon against Ramolla as the "pied piper" is a classic example of this and it has been known that Priest do come dangerously close to betraying the seal with certain cues and body language. For example, some priests stare or make a gesticulate right at you as they are discussing a certain moral issue with someone else in your presence; an issue that was discussed in the confessional during your Confession. This does would constitute a break in the seal. Unfortunately there is no way of prosecuting such a priest if he is an independent trad priest, and appealing to bishops or other priests rarely helps, since the "Boys' Club" mentality is endemic in all circles of traddieland.

I like Traddie Land because, precisely because, is a boys club.

I despise the novus ordo, in part, slightly in part because it is a girls club (quite literally a lace curtain that only allows gαy men to engage in any church activities).

Give me Traddie Land or Give Me Death!!!

I was just telling this story the other day: Many years ago when I attend the Insult Mass, I was an altar server/MC (I say "server" instead of "boy" because I was in my thirties at the time). The local "bishop," in all his benevolent splendor, relegated us to the mausoleum. Therefore, our "confessional" consisted of a kneeler in a back room with a curtain separating penitent and confessor. Now, I'm from the Midwest originally, and this was in California, so my voice stood out. One Sunday morning, after I had finished confessing and received absolution, the priest reached his hand around the curtain and asked, "By the way, can you serve Mass this morning, 'Charlemagne?' I'm short-handed." I stammered, "Yes, Father, uh, I can do that. Sure." Talk about an unsettling feeling.

If a person confesses to shoplifting minutes before Mass and then the priest who absolved you gives a sermon on shoplifting....is that breaking the seal of confession?

Did he write this the night before or did he improvise it immediatly after the confession?

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I like Traddie Land because, precisely because, is a boys club.

I despise the novus ordo, in part, slightly in part because it is a girls club (quite literally a lace curtain that only allows gαy men to engage in any church activities).

Give me Traddie Land or Give Me Death!!!

There is no shortage of effeminacy and a still eerier matriarchal usurpation of social influence and politik in traddieland. You think they "Boys' Club" is alright: talk after you've been targeted by them for not agreeing with those clerics' opinions or when you try to tell them they are making a mistake (anything from saying the wrong Collect to defending Terry Schiavo's murder).

What do you know about Traddie Land?

It's like Congress: constant deadlock, mostly 'cos of the sede infiltrators that have the Resistance fooled into supporting their agendas and buying their books/audio-files.

Just don't send your sons to sede seminaries, unless you want them to be either brainwashed or worse.