PASTORAL LETTER Community and Family Services Amendment Bill (2021)
In a Pastoral Letter published Thursday 21 October, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has said the confessional experience is a personal encounter between that person and Christ.
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
The recent passage of legislation through the state parliament removing civil law protections around the confidentiality of the confessional has deeply disappointed ...
SPECIAL REPORT: ‘Sins are not confessed to the priest, but to God’, Archbishop Costelloe tells Parliamentary Committee
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has once again been called upon to defend the faith – this time before a State Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry on 6 August in response to the Children and Community Services Amendment Bill 2019.