Pell defends confessional silence over sins of fathers

By Josephine Tovey, Phillip Coorey, Jonathan Swan
November 14 2012 - 3:00am

THE Premier, Barry O'Farrell, has questioned the Catholic Church's rules exempting priests from having to report admissions of sexual abuse made in Confession, as the country's most senior Catholic, George Pell, defended the church's handling of paedophilia in its ranks.

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