As the economy in Ireland bottoms out, their government is hard at work…
…attempting to dismantle the Sacrament of Reconciliation:
Several Irish government leaders have agreed that Catholic priests should be required to report child abuse to police, even if they learn about the abuse from a penitent in the confessional. Thus the government is reportedly planning to bring forward legislation that would challenge the confessional seal.
Columnist David Quinn is rightly appalled by this reaction to the sex-abuse scandal. “Even make us the one and only country in the Western world to have such a law. Even Revolutionary France in the days of its worst violence against the Church did not pass a law requiring the breaking of the seal of confession,” he notes.
