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(ABC Aus.) Australian Anglican priests to have option of disclosing confessions on serious crimes

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Kendall Harmon

The Anglican Church has decided to give priests in Australia the option of breaking the confidentiality of confessions.

The general synod, meeting in Adelaide, has voted for the historic change to cover serious crimes, such as child abuse.

It has decided it will be up to individual dioceses to adopt the policy.

Adelaide’s Anglican Archbishop Jeffrey Driver says the change makes sense but there will not be a hard-and-fast rule.

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4 comments on “(ABC Aus.) Australian Anglican priests to have option of disclosing confessions on serious crimes”

  1. Ad Orientem says:
    July 3, 2014 at 6:12 pm

    Wow. Just wow,

  2. Capt. Father Warren says:
    July 4, 2014 at 5:47 pm

    Slippery, slippery, slope.

  3. Nikolaus says:
    July 4, 2014 at 7:19 pm

    What is it about theological “education” in Australia that allows for this nonsense? I’m also thinking about the unique notion of lay presidency. I think this is a huge issue – in a negative way. Why is it receiving no attention?

  4. Charles52 says:
    July 6, 2014 at 1:27 am

    Fr. Conger has a post on it over at GetReligion.

    You have to wonder what Anglo-Catholic Australians think about it.