A new Australian law requiring priests to report people who confess child abuse is being met with resistance. Priests fear authorities will entrap them by having police pose as penitents confessing abuse and then arrest the priests if the false allegations of abuse are not reported. In any case, many priests say they will not comply.
Church under attack in Oz
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