Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Cathergansor's Apologist, Trent Horn.

Last month, the diocese of Wilmington and Delaware voiced opposition to a bill that would

require Catholic priests to break the seal of the confessional if someone were to confess

child abuse to a priest within the confessional.

And just a few weeks later, the diocese of Milwaukee sanctioned a priest for supporting

a law like this.

So I want to talk to you about this.

There was a priest in Milwaukee.

He lost his faculties to hear confessions, the bishop stripped him of those faculties.

After he published an editorial supporting a Minnesota law requiring priests to break

the seal of the confessional.

I also want to give you some arguments you can use when people say priests are being

given unfair special treatment when other people have to report the abuse of children.

And here's how it was reported in an article in the pillar.

So Milwaukee priest loses confession faculties after confession column.

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee announced Wednesday that a priest has lost the faculty to hear

confessions validly.

After he published an op-ed supporting a bill that would remove legal protections for

the confessional seal.

And this is him, Father James Connell.

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