translated from Spanish: AOS: “nobody can force a priest to break the secrecy of confession”

Today was held a ceremony where Raúl Bascuñán and Patricio Burich were ordained priests in the Cathedral of Santiago. The ordination was led by the Apostolic Administrator of Santiago, Monsignor Celestino Aós, who delivered a powerful message to new priests. “You are ordered priests today, here in the Church of Santiago, and the Church of Santiago. You know the problems live, which affect us, we have to face. Don’t try to never, never justify evil, sin, lie, but do not nor never forget that the Lord Jesus loves and redeems sinners.” In addition, Aos told attendees that “every priest, with its history, with its virtues, its limitations, with their sins, is a gift from God to the Christian community. “Want to his priests, pray for them, help them with a fair criticism and front, never, but never by the gossip”. At the end of his homily, Monsignor Celestino Aós referred to the possibility of breaking the secrecy of confession, to what would be required according to the draft law that obliges them to report sexual abuse of minors. “We have a look and a message about the work, about friendship and love, on marriage and the family, about loyalty and respect for the privacy of the other, intimacy of awareness that the Church respects so deeply that nobody can ever force a sa cerdote that violates the secrecy of confession. What happens in the confessional, when you confess it, takes place between God and you, through the mediation of the Church, through the priest. “Is this is holy and sacred, and it is not tradable”.

Original source in Spanish