What happens when someone confesses a murder?
Catholic Answers Live Clips | 16 Aug. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMfnisVtnSM
4:50 In such a case, two things.
1) The priest could ask the murderer to turn himself in if someone else is credibly accused.
2) The penitent could at least earlier times have both taken the blame and not turned himself in, nowadays there is Interpol, so that's less of an option. Still could apply in some cases.
So my original 2, now third thing:
3) If the justice system is likely to frame innocent people just because someone has to take the blame, the murder case has to appear solved, perhaps neither priest nor penitent owe that justice system all that much respect, and what other innocent man gets framed that's on the corrupt justice system, not on the murderer. Now, in my one, I would make an exception to this if someone else is credibly accused. If the absence of confession to police by the murderer means someone else has to hear (reasonably) "OK, you say you are innocent, but the evidence looks very damning." But only if this is reasonably. Not if it's because of too loose a relation with the concept of "evidence beyond reasonable doubt" ...
- Steven
- @Steven-d8n8x
- Nothing confessed in the confessional can be revealed, nothing no matter how heinous it is. You can offer all kinds of scenarios, but if you are inquiring about releasing information from the confessional......NO!
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- @hglundahl
- @Steven-d8n8x Thank you very much, but I was not speaking of what the priest can reveal (i e zero), but whether the priest can ask the murderer to reveal ... as the priest in this video seems to have thought.
It would be a very rare case. Both a very good penal justice system and a good likelihood of an innocent getting the blame and getting convicted. Not very usual.
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