§ 8-53.2. Communications between clergymen and communicants. - North Carolina Statutes

§8‑53.2.  Communications between clergymen and communicants.

No priest, rabbi, accreditedChristian Science practitioner, or a clergyman or ordained minister of anestablished church shall be competent to testify in any action, suit orproceeding concerning any information which was communicated to him andentrusted to him in his professional capacity, and necessary to enable him todischarge the functions of his office according to the usual course of hispractice or discipline, wherein such person so communicating such informationabout himself or another is seeking spiritual counsel and advice relative toand growing out of the information so imparted, provided, however, that thissection shall not apply where communicant in open court waives the privilegeconferred. (1959, c. 646; 1963, c. 200; 1967, c. 794.)