AUSTRALIA
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Cardinal George Pell will give evidence to a royal commission inquiry into child sex abuse in the Melbourne archdiocese as well as its Ballarat investigation.
The royal commission will hold a public hearing into the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne’s response to child abuse from late November.
The hearing will run alongside the second stage of its inquiry into clergy abuse in the Ballarat diocese.
Cardinal Pell, now the Vatican’s finance chief, had already agreed to return to Australia for the Ballarat inquiry.
Cardinal Pell is a former Melbourne and Sydney archbishop and Ballarat priest.
He and other witnesses who have evidence common to both inquiries will give evidence during a month-long sitting in Melbourne beginning on November 23.
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