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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 83
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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INVESTIGATORS "BUG" RELIGIOUS CONFESSION
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Confessor and God Aren't Only Ones Listening
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In CN 3.22 was brought to you Sherman Skolnick's report on how
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federal intelligence agencies were "bugging" the confessionals in
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St. Peter's Church in Chicago. Included was Mr. Skolnick's
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interview with an anonymous priest. Here are excerpts:
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PRIEST: If the Attorney General's office "bugged" our
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confessionals, there'd be Hell to pay!
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SKOLNICK: The U.S. Attorney in Chicago, who at the time was
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Jim Thompson.
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PRIEST: Well there would be *Hell* *to* *pay* if he did! I
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would be suspended, just that quick, if I would condone
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anything like that. That's absolutely a violation of the
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confession. And that is part of the things that any ordinary
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*priest* cannot violate. So if he cannot tell it himself, he
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certainly would not be able to permit something with which
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anybody else could get the information.
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It's against the whole, the whole teaching of the
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Catholic Church! I mean, the seal of confession, I mean even
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the Pope can't, has no right to ask a priest what he heard in
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confession. I mean, this has, this has been recognized by
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all the courts.
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I just can't even, I can't even *believe* that this
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happened, that anybody would be that *stupid*!
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Now comes an Associated Press story (05/11/96 in the local
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newspaper) about this same sort of thing having occurred in an
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Oregon jailhouse. Investigators, says the article, secretly tape
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recorded a murder suspect's confession to a Catholic priest.
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William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious
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and Civil Rights, is quoted as saying, "It's an absolute outrage.
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They used this priest. They brought him in to perform the
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sacrament of reconciliation [confession]. And then they bugged
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him."
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The confession was heard by the Rev. Timothy Mockaitis. The
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suspect, Conan Wayne Hale, apparently believed that the
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prosecutors would not dare invade the special relation between
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clergy and their followers.
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This info is passed along as tending to corroborate Mr.
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Skolnick's report as contained in CN 3.22.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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