Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Catholic Talk Show.

Today we're going to be talking about what priest actually hearing the confessional.

Yeah, everyone has this vision in their head that priests going to the confessional and it's all just confessions of murder and these crazy dramatic things.

But that's not really the case.

And Father Michael's going to share what he actually hears.

So this is the one episode where I can't say anything. So stay tuned and find out

what we talk about. Perfect. All right. Great. Yes. So that's kind of it, right? I mean,

that's it, man. My lips are sealed. Look, obviously, we're not going to encourage Father Michael

to break the seal of confession

because you would, you know, be excommunicated and lay a size immediately.

That is an unforgivable sin.

Pink slip.

But you can say generally the kinds of things you hear and you can say things that you've heard,

but you can never identify them to a person.

Right.

You can never use them against that person to coerce them outside the confessional.

Like you, so there's a lot of protection in place for that seal. Let's talk about that first.

Sure. I think that's perfect. Just to get that out. Yeah, the seal of confession is, is just a fascinating aspect of, of our faith and something I find just brings so

much freedom for me as someone who goes to confession. I try to go to confession every couple of

weeks and obviously hear a lot of confessions. And I've heard many, many confessions through my

almost 16 years of priesthood. And what it is basically is, is that.

I can't divulge any details about the person or about their sins.

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