Talk:Seal of the Confessional

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With respect to the United States, this article appears out-of-date - predating the statehood of Alaska! Also the term "Seal of the Confessional" is a term of religious law, not civil or criminal law (at least in the USA). I propose to transfer that material to a new page called something like Confessional Privilege (United States) and to preface it with the more relevant material, which would be statutory in nature. The historical and common-law material is interesting trivia, at least in the USA. Any thoughts? rewinn 03:54, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I seem to have stumbled on this page at roughly the same time and come to much the same conclusion. I think that we should:

1. Move this page to Confessional privilege (note capitalisation!) or some similar modern name
2. Be bold and edit the US bit (it is clearly out of date) with a link to the US article.
3. Post a request for WP:Peer review
4. Refine the categories
5. Make sure that there are some links from diverse related areas so that it gets noticed.

I think that the UK position is currently covered solely under the law of Public Interest Immunity but I will try to find time to look it up. Cutler 16:50, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh, hang on! I've just found this: Priest-penitent privilege. I feel a merge coming on but we should be careful here. There is more to the "seal of the confessional" than the civil law aspects. Cutler 17:32, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

OK. I have updated the Priest-penitent privilege article. I am going to ship out all the legal stuff from this page onto Seal of the Confessional/temp. We can then make this a decent article while we think what to do with the rest of the stuff. Cutler 17:57, 9 July 2006 (UTC)