AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
AAP
A FORMER altar boy preyed upon by a pedophile priest has been surprised by an apology from Cardinal George Pell.
Dr Pell concluded two-and-a-half days of evidence to the royal commission into child sex abuse on Thursday by apologising for what he had described as regrettable mistakes and misunderstandings over years of dealing with John Ellis.
Reading from a statement, Dr Pell said that, as the former archbishop of Sydney and speaking personally, the church had failed Mr Ellis in many ways.
Mr Ellis later said he had been “a bit surprised” by the cardinal’s apology.
“I am just not sure how I feel about it,” he told ABC.
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