MELBOURNE (AUSTRALIA)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
December 15, 2017
By Riley Stuart, Bellinda Kontominas and staff
Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart has said he does not fully support some of the 189 new recommendations delivered by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The sanctity of the religious confessional would be tossed aside and celibacy would become voluntary under the new recommendations, many of which are aimed at making children safer.
In what would be a shake-up of centuries of tradition, the recommendations called for an overhaul of confessional, with religious ministers forced to report any child sexual abuse revealed to them.
But Archbishop Hart says he does not support any changes to confession that would force a priest to report information to authorities.
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