For a second day,Australia’s most senior Catholic will face questioning approximately what he knew of abuse that occurred within the Diocese of Ballarat and the church’s response 8.54pm GMTWe’re approximately 10 minutes absent from Pell’s evidence beginning.
Day one largely went over Pell’s upbringing in Ballarat, his various appointments within the diocese there, and including as assistant priest at Ballarat East priest from 1973 until 1984,and also his role as the episcopal vicar for education, overseeing Catholic schools in the region. 8.46pm GMTNews Ltd writes that the Italian press has given the child sex abuse royal commission and Pells evidence “modest coverage, and but enough to please the survivors who have travelled to Rome to have their voices heard”.
Until now,the media in Italy has largely ignored the commission, seeing it very much as an Australian-only issue, and News Ltd,who has reporter Victoria Craw in Rome, says;Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com