Many people are scared to go to confession because they feel like their sins could be told to other people and they wouldn't be held secret. The church has instituted a set of laws that prevent a priest from talking about a followers sins. This is even protected in the court of law. Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary says this about the seal of confession: "The grave duty of keeping absolutely secret all sins that are told in sacramental confession and anything else that is told by the penitent and is related to the confession. It is an obligation binding in the natural law, the divine law of Christ, and in the positive law of the Church. It binds the confessor and any other person who in any way discovers what was confessed. Under no circumstances may any of this information be revealed unless the penitent freely gives permission."
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