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ARCHBISHOP: I'D GO TO JAIL RATHER THAN DOB IN SOMEONE WHO'D CONFESSED
By Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
August 14, 2017
https://goo.gl/UYVCf9
[with video]
The royal commission into child sexual abuse today said priests should be punished if someone taking confession admits to child abuse and the priest doesn't tell police. Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart says no priest can break confidentiality - and doing so will hurt children by making abusers less likely to admit anything even to their priest.
From The Bolt Report - Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart says confession is a fundamental part of the freedom of religion, and must remain so in Australia:
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