Breaking the silence: why priests should be made to report child abuse revealed in confession
- Written by Hadeel Al-Alosi, Lecturer, School of Law, Western Sydney University
The conflict between the rules of the church on the confidentiality of confessions and mandatory reporting laws is not a new issue.Shutterstock
Last December, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse made public its final report, containing 409 recommendations. The inquiry revealed that there were numerous instances...