Kyiv (RISU) - On 25 June, 2009, at its plenary session the Ukrainian Supreme Council rejected a bill that would maintain the privacy of confession. The bill would have prohibited priests from being questioned about information they heard during confession. The Ukrainian edition of the Kommersant newspaper reported this story on 26 June.
This bill would have also allowed advocates, notaries, doctors, and psychologists to be questioned about information they learned while performing their professional duties only if the person who gave the information granted written permission.
Only 187 MPs voted for the bill, while at least 226 votes were necessary.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Confession not protected in Ukraine
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That does pose some cannonical problems. From my understanding, A priest or bishop, if questioned by the authorites would have to be removed from his office if he were to give up information given in a confession. Am I correct? (at least for the Orthodox, I assume the Ukranian Catholic and Roman cannon on the matter is similar)
ReplyDeleteThis is moot. One confesses their sins, they are then forgiven. The priest/pastor then forgets. It is as simple as that. Let the Lord judge.
ReplyDelete"I am sorry your honor and I beg the forgiveness of the court, but what the accused confessed to me is, in my memory, as far as the East is from the West", I can not remember what he said.