Should add that unlike any professional oath or body, Catholic priests will literally die before breaking the Confessional Seal. They will never follow any gov

Should add that unlike any professional oath or body, Catholic priests will literally die before breaking the Confessional Seal. They will never follow any government or politician order to break it, and even the Pope himself cannot order them to do so. Many have gone to jail or been martyred keeping the Seal (as listed a bit lower in the same article).