AUSTRALIA
International Business Times
By Esther Tanquintic-Misa | March 26, 2014
Australian Cardinal George Pell, who is set to become Vatican’s keeper of finances, on Wednesday admitted limiting compensation to victims of sex abuse because of fears the Archdiocese of Sydney will go bankrupt.
Since creating the Melbourne Response in the 1990s, a victim may only receive a compensation of a maximum $50,000. That was the Australian church’s cap on payouts.
He said he does not want the Australian Catholic church suffering the fate of dioceses in America because “Australia is not America” where there are “an enormous number of lawyers.”
Cardinal Pell also said he could not accept that the church will issue payouts to its victims more than any other institution in Australia.
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