You just know these friggen grubs are just lying their arses of to protect their kiddie rapists and themselves. The government should just start dismantling these grub institutions and prosecuting the churches into non-existence. 


The Catholic Church says children can be protected while maintaining the seal of confession, despite the prime minister declaring child safety must come first.

Malcolm Turnbull has called on churches to prioritise the safety of children, even if child abuse has been revealed in confession.

Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president Archbishop Mark Coleridge said the church does not view the sacramental seal as incompatible with maintaining child safety.

He said the church wants measures that will genuinely make environments safer for children.

"There has been no compelling evidence to suggest that legal abolition of the seal of confession will help in that regard," he said.

"Protecting children and upholding the integrity of Catholic sacraments are not mutually exclusive and the church wants to continue to work with government to ensure both can be achieved and maintained."

Australia's Catholic leaders maintain the seal of confession cannot be broken even if priests face criminal charges for failing to reveal child abuse, as recommended by the child abuse royal commission.

In announcing the federal government's formal response to the inquiry, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had a clear message to the churches: "The safety of children should always be put first."

Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter said the states and territories, which had responsibility for mandatory reporting laws and systems, currently dealt with priests in different ways.

"The process will be that the states have agreed to harmonise their laws, so in effect to accept the recommendation of the royal commission," he said.

The only question for the federal government was how state laws interacted with section 127 of the Commonwealth Uniform Evidence Act, which covers religious confessions.

"That provides a protection to the confessional, but ever since that provision has existed that protection has never been absolute," Mr Porter said.

"It's always been very heavily qualified by the fact that confessions made for a criminal purpose have never been the subject of a protection or a privilege."

https://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/pm-calls-on-churches-to-put-child...