Posted on 06/08/2018 1:51:23 PM PDT by ebb tide
SYDNEY, Australia - Laws requiring Catholic priests to break the seal of confession in some cases passed the Australian Capital Territorys Legislative Assembly in Canberra June 7.
The purpose of the Ombudsman Amendment Bill 2018 was to expand the Reportable Conduct Scheme governing allegations of child abuse and misconduct to include religious organizations.
The legislation passed without amendment. The Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn has nine months to negotiate with the government on how it will work before the start of reportable conduct requirements.
Writing in The Canberra Times June 7, Archbishop Christopher Prowse of Canberra and Goulburn said he supported the revised scheme, but would not support a requirement to break the seal of confession. He said such a requirement would neither help prevent abuse nor efforts to improve the safety of children in Catholic organizations.
Apart from the fact that child abusers do not confess their crimes to police or priests, such legislation would also threaten Catholics religious freedom, he wrote.
The government threatens religious freedom by appointing itself an expert on religious practices and by attempting to change the sacrament of confession while delivering no improvement in the safety of children, he said.
In April, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian called for the seal of confession to be addressed by the Council of Australian Governments rather than state governments in isolation.
Our response to that recommendation (of the Royal Commission) is to take it through the COAG process. We believe that is the best way to deal with it, she told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Theyre complex issues that need to be balanced with what people believe to be religious freedoms, the premier said.
Watch for phony “confessions” to be made about child abuse, just to see if the priests report them.
Then the priests can be prosecuted.
That’s the way the state begins its persecutions...
Hopefully the churches will not be short of those willing to accept the consequences of their faith — ie, martyrdom.
I foresee sting operations to ensnare Catholic priests.
Meanwhile, the Oz equivalent of Planned Parenthood will continue to protect child rapists by performing abortions on underage girls without a word to the authorities.
Because we ALL know the Church never, ever, ever covered up a single case of child abuse.
Right?
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That is not the point.
“Because we ALL know the Church never, ever, ever covered up a single case of child abuse.”
This isn’t about covering anything up. The cover-ups do not begin or end in the confessional. This is about the state power encroaching where Western law never allowed it to encroach before - into the confessional.
There will be phoney confessions and if thy are well done without the common attitude of leftists making phoney confessions, they will send several priests to court. If any priest caves he will be defrocked. Most, properly all, will prefer to go to jail rather than betray the confessional. Rulers have passed such laws and made decrees in the past. It is not a new thing. Neither is martyrdom and there are new martyrs right along. The Church is up to this. But this Pope might grant a “dispensation” for such compromised confessions. I suspect that the priests so victimized will not even then break.
Were the priests to comply with the ruler that would end Confession in the Australian Church.
A priest can always withhold absolution until the penitent turns himself over to the civil authorities.
The f*ckfaces on the left want nothing more than to destroy the Church. They think they can force the priests to choose between their faith and going to jail. ZERO of them will break the seal.
Not going to happen.
That is both exactly the point, and why this passed. Had that not happened over and over and over again this law wouldn’t have been written. But it did and it was.
And when cases are proven, pedophiles need to be dropped into the depths of the sea chained to a millstone. Priests who knew need to be chained with them.
That is not the way it is.
That is not the point.
Its exactly the point. Maybe if the church hadnt functioned as the worlds largest ring of pedophiles for decades they MIGHT have reason to complain. But they did.
So they have absolutely zero room to complain.
They sowed this.
Now let them reap the harvest.
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People should just confess to Jesus like they’re supposed to then, and then these priests won’t have to worry about entrapment.
This is about the state power encroaching where Western law never allowed it to encroach before - into the confessional.
The church really protected all those kids when they were hiding known pedophiles for decades. Thats really showing respect for the law now, aint it.
The church could have done the right thing, defrocked these monsters, and handed them over to the authorities for prosecution. But they didnt. In fact they actively engaged in a massive world wide conspiracy to cover it up.
If the church wanted the sanctity of the confessional respected THEY could have shown a bit of respect for the law AND the victims.
But they didnt. So this happened.
As you sow so shall you reap.
Youd think all these holy types would have read that part of the Bible.
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A priest can always withhold absolution until the penitent turns himself over to the civil authorities.
Yea, thatll show them.
Snort.
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Repeated cover ups for pedophiles is exactly the way it is.
Perhaps the Catholic Church might have considered that other people are not necessarily as tolerant of pedophiles as they are.
It is a continuing problem, and the rot lead to them having a pope like Francis. They earned him. He represents them perfectly.
Won’t happen.
The priest’s to not want to go to Hell.
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