AUSTRALIA
Australian Broadcast Corporation
January 1, 2018
By Isabella Higgins
A new generation of Catholic priests is promising to make the church more open, engaging and modern.
Last month the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse delivered damning findings about the Catholic Church.
The commission’s final report recommended the Church break with centuries of tradition, tossing out the sanctity of the confessional and making celibacy for priests voluntary.
There has been reluctance from senior leadership, but a new wave of priests-in-training believe the priesthood must evolve.
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