AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Thomas Oriti
Cardinal George Pell says that from a “Christian point of view”, the Church did not deal fairly with former altar boy and sex abuse victim John Ellis.
Mr Ellis was abused by a priest in the 1970s, but lost a legal battle in 2007 when the Court of Appeal ruled the Catholic Church was not an entity that could be sued.
Cardinal Pell, Australia’s most senior Catholic cleric, is giving evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney.
He said although lawyers never acted improperly, he had “moral doubts” and believed the case was mishandled from a spiritual perspective.
“Any reservations I might have about particular stands of our lawyers, I would not want to suggest that they did anything improper,” he told the hearing.
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