text: Hypothetically, a question to ask these Archbishops would be whether they would make absolution conditional on going to the police and confessing if the offender priest was confessing to murder.
  
  What if the penitent showed remorse about murdering someone, received absolution, then went on to murder again and again and again and so on.
  
  Would the seal of the confessional still stand?  Or would the confessor go himself to the police to report the offender?
  
  Does anyone know what would happen in this hypothetical case especially with regard to Canon Law?