religious liberty issue - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 18 Jul 2022 08:53:04 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg religious liberty issue - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Execution can't proceed without religious requests https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/07/18/execution-religious-requests/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 07:59:30 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=148943 A federal judge has issued a temporary order telling Texas prison officials that they can carry out a scheduled execution of a death row inmate only if they grant all of his religious accommodations, including allowing his spiritual adviser to hold his hand when he receives a lethal injection. Read more

Execution can't proceed without religious requests... Read more]]> A federal judge has issued a temporary order telling Texas prison officials that they can carry out a scheduled execution of a death row inmate only if they grant all of his religious accommodations, including allowing his spiritual adviser to hold his hand when he receives a lethal injection. Read more

Execution can't proceed without religious requests]]> 148943 Catholic 'seal of the confessional' upheld as religious liberty issue https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/03/04/catholic-seal-of-the-confessional-upheld-as-religious-liberty-issue/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 15:14:34 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=81013 A Louisiana judge has ruled that a state law requiring clergy to report child abuse or other crimes learned in the confessional is unconstitutional because it infringes on religious liberty. At issue is a long-running case involving Rebecca Mayeaux, a 22-year-old who claims that when she was 14 she told Fr. Jeff Bayhi, a Catholic Read more

Catholic ‘seal of the confessional' upheld as religious liberty issue... Read more]]> A Louisiana judge has ruled that a state law requiring clergy to report child abuse or other crimes learned in the confessional is unconstitutional because it infringes on religious liberty.

At issue is a long-running case involving Rebecca Mayeaux, a 22-year-old who claims that when she was 14 she told Fr. Jeff Bayhi, a Catholic priest, during confession that a church member was abusing her. Mayeaux claims Bayhi told her to "sweep it under the rug."

In his testimony, Bayhi told state District Judge Mike Caldwell that he had no choice but to keep Mayeaux's allegations private because of the inviolability of the seal of the confessional.

Caldwell agreed and ruled Feb. 26 in favor of Bayhi.

Confession is a Catholic sacrament in which a penitent recounts his or her sins privately to a priest, who then absolves them and usually sets up some regimen of penance, such as extra prayers.

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