‘Priests should be trained to cope with celibacy’

Church in Australia says clergy should get psychosexual training

The Catholic Church in Australia has said compulsory celibacy may have contributed to priests abusing children and advised that all clergy should receive psychosexual training.

The findings are contained in a a report by the Truth, Justice and Healing Council, which is co-ordinating the Australian Church’s response to the national Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse announced by the government in 2012.