The aim of this article is to examine the responsibility of the confessor in a few concrete cases that might arise in the confessional, when the penitent is a cleric abuser, or the victim, or when the penitent is a third party. If it is never permitted to impose on the penitent, as a condition for absolution, the obligation to turn himself in to civil authorities, what about self-reporting and absolution? In this context, the issue of abuses calls for the serious consideration of the meaning of reserving the concession of the faculty to hear confessions to the Bishop. It is necessary that the Bishop be responsible for the completion of the sacramental path. Some operative conclusions, also in of the topic of formation.