Archbishop of York’s Bold Suggestion- End To Confidentiality In Child Abuse Confessions

At times one of the defenses we will see in abuse cases is the confidentiality of penance, which is that things were said to other members of the clergy,  but they are protected because they were as part of the sacrament of penance.   


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