Staggering that in 2017 these sort of nonsensical beliefs still exist.
Denis Hart, Archbishop of Melbourne, insisted confession was “a spiritual encounter with God through the priest” and was “of a higher order” than criminal law.
Hart isn’t the only one who puts his beliefs ahead of the rights and we’ll being of children.
His stance was backed by other high-profile clerics, including his Brisbane counterpart Mark Coleridge and priest and lawyer Frank Brennan, who he said he would “conscientiously refuse to comply with the law” if it was changed.
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