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Commission calls to end mandatory celibacy

In Australia, the special commission that investigated child abuse in public and religious institutions yesterday defined the events as a“national tragedy” at the presentation of a report on child abuse and includes more than 400 recommendations, including urging the Vatican to bring an end to mandatory celibacy and to declare that the secret of the confessional invalid in cases of pedophilia. “Tens of thousands of children suffered sexual abuse in our institutions over generations” the report states.

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