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Charles Miranda in Rome
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CARDINAL George Pell has said he is committed to working with sex abuse survivors in Ballarat, admitting their stories “were hard to listen to”.
After meeting with victims of child sex abuse in Rome, the Cardinal said he owed a lot to the people of Ballarat and that he supported a centre to enhance healing.
He also said that he was committed to “making things better”, as “one suicide is too many”.
His comments come after four days of interrogation in which he gave evidence via videlink to the royal commission into child abuse.
Meanwhile, amid talk of conspiracies and cover-ups, power, deceit and betrayal among priests forced to make hushed promises to hold secrets on original sin, sex orgies, torture and even murder, there is just something a bit tooDa Vinci Code, too clichéd, to pitch as a potential new Dan Brown novel.
But this is not fiction but rather extraordinary revelations by a senior figure from the Vatican about the institution that he rightly declared has existed since the days of the Roman Empire and would continue into some form into the next millennia.
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