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Thread #128156   Message #2880889
Posted By: beeliner
06-Apr-10 - 03:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Clerical child abuse Part 94....
Subject: RE: BS: Clerical child abuse Part 94....
I see, is that some comedy hat, that makes it all alright or something?

Makes WHAT all right?

The stole is a vestment, a strip of cloth worn around the neck to indicate that a sacrament of the Church is being performed.

Receiving absolution does not mean that the penitent is released from responsibility for the consequences of his/her sin. That's why the confessor might make the absolution conditional on submission to civil law and punishment.

That's certainly what I would do were I a priest hearing a confession of child molestation. Under those circumstances, if the offender refused to do so, there would be no absolution. But the priest cannot reveal the details of the confession under any circumstances, period.