Cardinal George Pell says he heard ‘unlucky rumours’ that were ‘vague’ and ‘unspecific’ about Brother Edward Dowlan from the Christian Brothers in Ballarat. Commissioner Peter McClellan questions Pell about why he didn’t expose the bishop. Pell concedes he should have done more when told of the rumours and ‘I regret that I didn’t conclude more at that stage’. Cardinal George Pell is testifying via videolink from Rome to the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse hearing in SydneyContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com