Medical report from Rome kept secret but royal commissioner accepts that travelling to Australia might have serious consequences’ for cardinals healthThe cardinal won’t be coming. It’s his heart. A fresh medical report from Rome says it would be “difficult” for Cardinal George Pell to take the long flight domestic to give further evidence to the royal commission into the institutional responses to child sexual abuse. “It doesn’t preclude his travel,” observed the commissioner Peter McClellan. “It doesn’t say he can’t advance.” But McClellan has accepted the verdict of Pell’s medicos that a journey domestic at this time might have “serious consequences” for His Eminence’s health. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com