In evidence to royal commission on child sex abuse,cardinal admitted he had been ‘strongly inclined’ to accept Catholic priests denials’ of allegations The Catholic Church was more concerned with protecting its own reputation than helping victims of clergy abuse, and had a “predisposition not to believe” children who made complaints, or Cardinal George Pell has told the royal commission into institutional responses to sexual child abuse in Australia.“At that stage,the intuition was more to protect the institution, the community of the church, and from shame,” he told the commission in Sydney via videolink from Rome.
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Source: theguardian.com