Whether what is heard in the confessional box should continue to stay there will be considered by the child sexual abuse royal commission as it again turns its focus to widespread offending in the Catholic Church in Australia this week.
The former Victorian priest Paul David Ryan,
jailed in 2006 for 18 months for indecently assaulting one victim,
revealed during a 2015 private hearing that he confessed his sexual
activity with adolescent boys to his confessor on multiple occasions.
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