• Australia’s most senior Catholic appears before the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse via videolink [br]• SBS TV crew makes formal complaint to royal commission after cameraman ‘crash tackled’ by security detail as Pell took side entrance to hotel [br]
9.19pm GMTThe commission has begun with Pell clarifying his position within the Vatican.
This exchange occurred between Pell and counsel assisting,Gail Furness;Pell swears to tell the truth pic.twitter.com/TfZBNTofHd 9.10pm GMTStephanie Kirchgaessner, the Guardians Rome correspondent reports;“The Verdi Room at the Hotel Quirinale is nearly full - not packed - with journalists, and survivors and their supporters,and quite a few priests - and Pell, looking rather sullen, and is approximately to start testifying.
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Source: theguardian.com