UNITED KINGDOM
The Times
Sean O’Neill Crime Editor
Child abusers should no longer be protected from justice by the confidentiality of the confessional, the Archbishop of York told The Times today.
Dr John Sentamu said that after listening to survivors of sexual abuse by a senior clergyman he had pressed the Church of England to undertake legal and theological study on the secrecy of confession.
Under canon law priests are forbidden from disclosing what is said to them in the confessional.
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