Think through Clergy Communications, Confidentiality, and Privilege

communications or something similar. But when does it apply? Ministers must think through this before they start listening to confessions and other important communications. In a case last year, Pastor V. learned that one of his juvenile parishioners had sexually molested a young cousin. Horrified, he called in the boy and his mother, and pressed the boy to confess.
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