Catholic Church’s History of Sin Is Long, Says George Pell

By Pia Akerman
The Australian
August 22, 2014

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George Pell has spoken out to distance the Catholic Church from pedophile priests, admitting a “moral responsibility” while denying the church had legal culpability as the priests’ ultimate employer. Giving evidence to the royal commission investigating institutional responses to child sexual abuse, Cardinal Pell last night compared the church’s position to that of a truck company whose driver molested hitchhikers.