BISHOP of Bathurst Michael McKenna plans to study the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse before having his say on them.
There were 409 recommendations aimed at keeping children safe in a 17-volume final report handed down on December 15. One key recommendation was religious ministers should be forced to report information confided in them during a confession.
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