WOF 180: Priests, Confessions, and Prison

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A recent bill proposed in the California Senate will force priests to report any crimes of sexual abuse they hear about in the confessional, breaking the seal of Confession. Bishop Barron speaks about the sacredness of this sacrament and what the Church should do if, suddenly, the sacrament of Confession becomes functionally illegal.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot. The host of the show and joining us is his
0:11.9	excellency Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, welcome. Hey Brandon, always good to be
0:16.1	on with you. A couple episodes ago, I introduce you as his eminence and we've got all these emails
0:21.5	saying like, oh, did you guys hear something? We haven't heard of you. Yeah. I'm like, yeah,
0:25.7	that's how we're getting up the higher. And that's how we break the news through a coded
0:30.3	introduction on the podcast. Listen, what's been going on? I know you you started confirmation
0:35.6	season. What's up and gone? Well, that's that's probably the big news of this time of year in L.A.
0:39.7	we do all the confirmations pretty much in the months after Easter. And once that season kicks in,
0:46.3	it pretty much takes up all your time. As we record these words, it's a Monday. I had a confirmation
0:51.7	Friday, two on Saturday, two on Sunday. I've got one tonight and then one tomorrow night.
0:56.3	So it'll be seven confirmations in five days. But that's typical this time of year.
1:00.9	Now, I kind of like the fact in L.A. that we we get them overall in one intense period. I kind of
1:06.8	like it that way. But I must say some days, it is exhausting when you're finishing your second
1:13.1	confirmation of 100 and some kids, you know, but generally I like confirmation season a lot. I
1:18.4	enjoy going out to the parishes and seeing these young people and trying to get them like tonight,
1:23.2	you know, I'm going to go down to the St. Bountre Venture Mission in Ventura, which was founded by
1:28.7	Hunipero Sarah. And what I'm going to talk about, I'll do something new tonight about Sarah and
1:36.1	bringing the faith to this part of the world. And to say to these these kids, hey, we're passing
1:41.3	the torch on to you, you know, the people that brought the faith here 200 some years ago.
1:46.4	It's been passed on steadily and now to you to defend the faith and spread the faith and
1:51.2	you're confirmed. And so anyway, so you apartment, Brandon, I get sick of hearing my own homily.
1:56.4	So when you've got 37 confirmations, you can't give the same homily every night. I mean, I do a
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