Translation of "Beichtgeheimnis" in English

Incidentally, I mention it only in passing I could always tell the judge it was a matter of confession.

I was hoping to do it under the confessional.

A good priest would never break the confessional seal.

Ok, but I can't reveal what's said in confession.

As a priest, I can't break the seal of confession.

I was about to reveal his secret.

Seal of confession still applies, even over lattes.

A confessional seal, these days I'm not so sure.

For confessional secrecy is absolute and holy in the church.

Vatican: Seal of Confession always inviolable, despite civil law

King Wenzel IV. wanted to force Johannes to breach the confessional secret.

Those are the people for whom banking secrecy is more important than the secrecy of the confessional, even though they go to church on Sundays.

However, he did not violate the secrecy of confession during the torture and Pope John Paul II declared him a saint in 1995 in Olomouc.

There is a secret of a confession.

This is from confession.

Furthermore, I give you permission to break the seal of the confessional and tell the whole world what I have told you.

The sacramental seal is inviolable; therefore it is absolutely forbidden for a confessor to betray in any way a penitent in words or in any manner and for any reason.

Because not all are born lions or eagles, several of these brothers and several seminarians and religious, not knowing how to act or simply as contact their superiors and remain unharmed, They freed inviolable sacramental seal of confession and after having me they provided free transfer details, evidence and documents, authorizing me to report cases and to talk to the competent ecclesiastical authority.

As another possible cause it is stated that John did not want to reveal to the king the queen's secret of the confession.

Father BOB CURTIS, who plays himself, convinces in his portrayal of the priest's dilemma whether to break the confession seal - first in the church when he looks around to check if Julia has come to the ceremony, and later during the wedding reception at Falcon Crest when he thinks for a second that Melody, the maid, might be Julia.

Here we enter the mysterious realm of banking secrets, which must be maintained as absolutely as the secrets of the confession box in church.

Afterwards, when the priest was dead and there could be no more fear of constitutional challenge to the secrecy of Confession, it was learned that it was a confidence trick.

Since he is under the seal of confession and cannot go to the police, the good-humoured priest sets off himself to try to prevent his murderer from carrying out the deed.

And regarding that thing about freedom of expression, the fellow must have gotten something wrong, or he's using a very lose interpretation of confessional secret, because according to German Wikipedia, this saint is "only" concerned with:

But in spite of atrocious torture Nepomuk kept the confessions to himself so that finally King Wenceslas had the loyal and discreet Nepomuk in 1393 thrown from the bridge and drowned in the rapid Muldaw River.

We commit ourselves to critically examine our church's programmes for pastoral care, under the present circumstances of mass bugging and evaluation of digital communication. How can we protect the confidentiality of pastoral care and the confessional?