AUSTRALIA
7 News
AAP
July 1, 2013
Cardinal George Pell must be asked to stand down following his failure as a moral leader after the Catholic Church’s child sex abuse scandal in Australia, a victim’s advocacy group says.
Commission of Inquiry Now (COIN) has started a petition to pressure the church to ask its most senior prelate in Australia to stand down.
The petition says Cardinal Pell has failed Australia’s five million Catholics and the Australian people in general as a religious and moral leader.
“Practically every day, the Australian people learn about the hideous crimes of child sexual abuse taking place within the Roman Catholic Church,” the petition at change.org says.
Katrina Lee, spokeswoman for the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, said she did not want to comment specifically on the petition, which had about 120 signatures at 4pm (AEST) on Monday.
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