Is a priest who is taking confessions obligated to alert authorities if they think you will ctb?

[BurningLights]

As the title says, looking at ..options. not to be caught, but to save my soul.

 

[Threads]

No. A priest is not obligated.

But that doesn't mean a priest won't. When I go to confession, I typically go out of town, or into the city, I don't do local churches. Heed my advice and do the same, if possible.

 

[BurningLights]

Advice heeded! Just looking at options for now.
The answer I was looking for. Thank you threads.

 

[MAIO]

As the title says, looking at ..options. not to be caught, but to save my soul.

So many central figures in Christianity committed suicide such as Samson, hell you could argue to a point even Jesus committed suicide by cop. This notion that suicide equals hell really has no basis whatsover. Suicide damning your soul was a response to mass suicide in the Middle Ages.

 

[BurningLights]

So many central figures in Christianity committed suicide such as Samson, hell you could argue to a point even Jesus committed suicide by cop. This notion that suicide equals hell really has no basis whatsover. Suicide damning your soul was a response to mass suicide in the Middle Ages.

Indeed, its not so much that I'll be damned, its that I have come to believe my soul is...how do I put this, not worthy of an afterlife, I shall simply be discarded upon my arrival.
Who knows, maybe I have killed my soul, that I'm not sure of. I'm just weighing up my options.

 

[Virgo]

It's a large risk regardless of whether or not they are obligated to.

 

[Threads]

Remember. When you confess, if you believe in the sacrament of confession. Penance for your actions isn't found by saying 15 Our Fathers or 15 Hail Marys.

Penance for your actions is found from within. Speaking to a priest helps get it out, and if you believe it, God will ultimately be your deliverance. But the path to that deliverance is found in how you live, not in how you die.

Romans 8:31-39

 

[BurningLights]

Remember. When you confess, if you believe in the sacrament of confession. Penance for your actions isn't found by saying 15 Our Fathers or 15 Hail Marys.

Penance for your actions is found from within. Speaking to a priest helps get it out, and if you believe it, God will ultimately be your deliverance. But the path to that deliverance is found in how you live, not in how you die.

Romans 8:31-39

This is what I was afraid of. And to be honest, was being very naive about being saved right before death.
I either do enough to grant my soul life again. Or accept that this is simply the end of my journey. I think the latter is the reachable choice.

 

[BurningLights]

It's a large risk regardless of whether or not they are obligated to.

Agreed, not something I will be doing.

Thank you all.

 

[worldexploder]

I don't even think priests are obligated to tell authorities if someone confessed to a murder.

 

[Lra888]

No they definitely shouldnt if they have faith in what they are doing.

 

[Dor]

There was a priest here in Sweden who had information on a serial killer since the serial killer had apparently confessed to him and he didn't reveal anything just to honor the code.

 

[Lra888]

Quoting Canon 983.1 of the Code of Canon Law, the Catechism states, "...It is a crime for a confessor in any way to betray a penitent by word or in any other manner or for any reason" (No. 2490). A priest, therefore, cannot break the seal to save his own life, to protect his good name, to refute a false accusation, to save the life of another, to aid the course of justice (like reporting a crime), or to avert a public calamity. He cannot be compelled by law to disclose a person's confession or be bound by any oath he takes, e.g. as a witness in a court trial. A priest cannot reveal the contents of a confession either directly, by repeating the substance of what has been said, or indirectly, by some sign, suggestion, or action. A Decree from the Holy Office (Nov. 18, 1682) mandated that confessors are forbidden, even where there would be no revelation direct or indirect, to make any use of the knowledge obtained in the confession that would "displease" the penitent or reveal his identity.