When is it right to break the seal of confession?

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Under what circumstances should a priest break the seal of confession?
 
Under no circumstances whatsoever. A priest must be willing to be martyred rather than break the seal of confession.
The sacramental seal is inviolable. Accordingly, it is absolutely wrong for a confessor in any way to betray the penitent, for any reason whatsoever, whether by word or in any other fashion (canon 983 §1, Code of Canon Law).
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