{"id":2031,"date":"2016-10-31T07:27:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T11:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2016-10-31T07:27:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T11:27:47","slug":"louisiana-supreme-court-upholds-catholic-confessional-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/31\/louisiana-supreme-court-upholds-catholic-confessional-seal\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Supreme Court Upholds Catholic Confessional Seal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that priests are not required to report what\u00a0they hear in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled: \u201cA priest when administering the sacrament of confession has no duty to report any confidential communications made during the confession that, by the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church, he is authorized to hear and is also duty bound to keep confidential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A priest of the Diocese of Baton Rouge, had been directed to testify about what a 14-year-old allegedly told him in Confession. \u00a0The young woman said that she told the priest\u00a0about being molested by a member of his parish. \u00a0The priest had refused to testify, citing the inviolability of the confessional seal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that priests are not required to report what\u00a0they hear in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The court ruled: \u201cA priest when administering the sacrament of confession has no duty to report <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/31\/louisiana-supreme-court-upholds-catholic-confessional-seal\/\" title=\"Louisiana Supreme Court Upholds Catholic Confessional Seal\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1335,1338,1333,1336,1337],"class_list":{"0":"post-2031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"tag-confession","10":"tag-confidential","11":"tag-louisiana","12":"tag-priests","13":"tag-roman-catholic","14":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}