Czechia’s treaty with the Vatican is stalled over two issues: Whether priests must ever disclose confessions, and how open church archives should be. The Vatican now says it’s open to debate. What should happen next?

Keep the confession absolutely secret and let the Church control its records 17 %
Allow limited exceptions to confession secrecy and expand archive access 46 %
Keep confession secret, but make church records more accessible 17 %
Reject the treaty if these issues aren’t fully resolved 9 %
Not sure, need more information 11 %
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