AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Clare Blumer
Sydney’s Catholic Archbishop says reporting abuse to authorities that he heard about during a confession would be like “bugging the confessional”.
The five Catholic archbishops of Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide were giving evidence alongside each other for the second day running at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The church leaders were quizzed by senior counsel Gail Furness about how they might deal with a fictional child called ‘Sally’ reporting abuse to them in a confessional.
There were mixed responses from the archbishops.
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