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If the confessor judged him likely to murder again, would that not make the confession null because the penitent lacks the firm purpose of sinning no more? Would the seal of confession still apply here?

Somewhat unrelated, but an interesting thing I read today that I hadn't thought of before:


"May a priest in a court of justice make known what he has learned in the confessional?


No; and if he is questioned, he ought to declare to the judge, with an oath if that be necessary, that he knows nothing of the subject in question. For what he learns through the confession of a penitent, he knows not as man, but as a representative of God, and in this quality he is not subject to the jurisdiction of the judge."

From the Exposition of Christian Doctrine Part III "Worship"

NOW shared this article from an EO blog on Twitter. And it is excellent. It gets right to the heart of what some of us have been saying about the tactics applied by Fr. Ripperger and other "celebrity exorcists".

https://www.myrrhandmanna.com/post/the-narcissistic-novelty-and-danger-of-celebrity-exorcists

Ok, I found them; they are capirotes.