India's Catholic Church has led a chorus of protest over a demand to ban Confession from the chairwoman of the National Commission for Women.
"This demand is absurd and it displays ignorance about the sacrament of confession," Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, President of Catholic Bishops Conference of India, told Catholic News Service.
"The tenor of the demand shows they do not understand the meaning nor do they have respect for religious freedom," the cardinal said following wide media coverage of the demand from Rekha Sharma, commission chairwoman.
