Why Confession is a fraud if a priest tells?

[Bookcat]

So the bishop or other priests couldn’t hear the priests confission in a emergency

In case of danger of death - any Priest can hear a confession.

 

[Brassring]

No i mean will the penitent go to jail if he confessed to a crime worthy of jail time and the priest tells the authorities.

It could possibly be used as evidence at trial (admissibility would be decided by the judge), but it wouldn’t be the same as a confession to the police, since the penitent would not have been mirandized prior to the confession and would not have willingly waived their right to remain silent.

 

[peter26]

In case of danger of death - any Priest can hear a confession.

But not necessarily lift an excommunication.

 

[2_RollinStoned]

It is not about “fraud” but is about grave sin and excommunication.

A Priest may never break the seal of confession.

Period.

Tis not a matter for a poll.

 

[TK421]

Only the penitent can freely reveal the contents of a Confession. The priest must value the Seal above his life. The confessions of a penitent should be as a sacred and as secret as though they were uttering their sins to God in the solitude of their thoughts. The person might choose to tell others, but God does not.