ROME
Sydney Morning Herald
[with video]
March 2, 2016
Melissa Cunningham
Cardinal George Pell has agreed to meet with survivors of clerical sexual abuse but victims say they have lost all faith in Australia’s most senior Catholic cleric and are now pushing to meet Pope Francis instead.
The announcement came as Cardinal Pell concluded a third day of evidence before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse.
Ballarat survivor Philip Nagle said victims had grown increasingly frustrated by Cardinal Pell’s failure to accept any responsibility for the sexual abuse of children at the hands of clergy and their preference was to meet the world’s most senior Catholic.
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