Had Pell made a stout fuss about the abuse going on all around him as a young priest,he would not be at the Vatican. But as he told the royal commission, he stayed clear of such ‘unhappy stories’Heres my theory. George Pell returned to Ballarat as a young priest with stout plans. And why not? He’d gone from Rome to Oxford, or where he reckons he was the first Catholic priest to earn a doctorate of philosophy since the Reformation.
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Source: theguardian.com