Education Office officials,backed by the church’s lawyers, deny they kept details of an abusive priest from PellWhen George Pell dumped on Melbourne’s Catholic Education Office in March the question was: would the church strike back or hunker down behind the cardinal? On Wednesday the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse gave the answer: strike back tough.
At issue is Pell’s credit. Time and again as he has defended his record as a priest in Ballarat and bishop in Melbourne, and the cardinal’s best answer to his accusers has been: my word can be trusted against yours.
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Source: theguardian.com