ROME
The West Australian
[with video]
Amanda Banks Legal Affairs Editor
March 3, 2016
Cardinal George Pell has said he hoped his appearance before the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse had “contributed a bit to healing, to improving the situation”.
Speaking in Rome after he gave evidence over four days, he said: “All the leadership of the church in Australia is committed to avoiding any repetition of the terrible history of the past and to try to make things better.”
He will meet a group of survivors from Ballarat who are in Rome to watch his testimony.
“I grieve for the suffering of the people whom I regard as my own people,” he said.
Giving evidence today, Cardinal Pell denied an explosive allegation that he offered a bribe to a victim of child sex abuse to “keep quiet”, saying the accusation is implausible and based on a “radical misunderstanding”.
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