Joseph Towle Quotes on Confession (4 Quotes)

went publicly and conveyed this material to the lawyers. At this point the seal of confession is not in play.

There is nothing, first of all, nothing more sacred then the seal of confession, ... I did not consider this to fall under that precise seal of confession because he had not come to me explicitly seeking absolution, but to find a solution on how he could help his friends.

If someone were to come to a Catholic priest and to confess to a murder in a confessional situation, which is between that person and God -- using myself in this case as a medium -- there is nothing absolutely that I could say, ever,

If it was a formal confession, I would not be able to say a single word,