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By Mark Michael, The Living Church: As the United Kingdom considers implementing a mandatory reporting law for child sexual abuse, the Church of England’s eight traditionalist Anglo-Catholic bishops have publicly urged that an exemption...
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by George Conger, Anglican Ink: The Society under the patronage of Saint Wilfrid and Saint Hilda has asked the government to carve out an exemption for priests hearing a confession from proposed mandatory reporting of child abuse. In a...
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from The Society: The Society’s Council of Bishops has responded to the Government’s consultation on mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse. Read here
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from LifeSite: While two state legislatures debate bills that would attempt to force priests to break the secrecy of the confessional for cases of child abuse, a Catholic bishop affirmed that priests and bishops would rather suffer...
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by Joseph Shaw, The Critic: New legislation will not help children. The Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) published in October recommends “mandatory reporting” of child sexual abuse, explicitly including...
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from Forward in Faith: We welcome the priority the Church of England has accorded in recent years to improving its record on safeguarding. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has produced its final report and it is...
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