The sacrament of reconciliation is depicted in a stained-glass window at St. Aloysius Church in Great Neck, New York. How many children have been sexually abused, over time and throughout the world, by serial predators because priests, to whom these culprit priests, parents, teachers or other persons sacramentally confessed their crimes and sins, are bound by the absolute secrecy of the seal of confession?
https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/now-time-modify-catholic-churchs-seal-confession
https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/now-time-modify-catholic-churchs-seal-confession