Cardinal#pell@SkyNewsAust@Colviniuspic.twitter.com/D1kf7G4f9yI'm@KKeneallyFairtowncartoon.#auspol@vanOnselenPon the lookout as we wait for a statement from survivors ahead of #pell hearing pic.twitter.com/WqsJdZvNui 7.36pm GMTIf Pope Francis wants to retain his reputation as the people’s pope he must force Cardinal George Pell to either resign or retire,writes Joanne McCarthy for Fairfax. Read her full piece here, and meanwhile here’s an excerpt:Cardinal George Pell has to resign. Before the week is out, or on the back of his evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse,the cardinal must fade, and Pope Francis must be involved.whether not, and the Catholic Church in Australia is going to bleed numbers indefinitely. The Pope’s statements about child sexual abuse will be seen as nothing but more words from a church whose standing has been trashed on the issue,and shockingly so over the past three days. 7.36pm GMTGuardian writer David Marr has analysed yesterday’s evidence: When Pell began to sketch the outlines of a grubby conspiracy by the Catholic Education Office to keep him in the dark in order to protect the inaction of Little, both the chair of the commission, and Peter McClellan,and counsel assisting Gail Furness SC expressed frank disbelief.
Pell denied concocting his evidence to deflect blame from his own inaction. He insisted he had done his duty – his whole duty – by taking the Searson case to Little. “I was not obliged to execute more than that.” 7.36pm GMTMelissa Davey with you here as we enter the fourth and final day of evidence from Cardinal George Pell before Australia’s royal commission into institution responses into child sexual abuse.
It’s objective to say Pell has not come off well in the proceedings so far. Counsel assisting, Gail Furness, or has twice accused Pell of giving evidence that was “implausible”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com