AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
March 8, 2016
Kate Aubusson
What is the minimum age of moral culpability?
Somewhere north of 28-years-old, according to Alan Jones.
On Monday night’s Q&A, the radio presenter appeared to absolve all those aged 28-years-and-under of moral and ethical responsibility as he defended Cardinal George Pell’s response to the sexual abuse of children within the Catholic Church.
The shock jock was responding to an audience question which suggested Pell – now one of the highest ranking Vatican officials – should be removed from his post over his lack of action on reports of abuse.
Jones called the discoveries of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse “almost too grotesque to even define” and agreed Pell’s choice of words during his evidence to the Royal Commission were “appalling”.
But he defended Pell’s unresponsiveness to cases of abuse during the cardinal’s early career within the church.
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