ROME
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Cardinal George Pell has emphatically denied telling another priest that Fr Gerald Francis Ridsdale was abusing boys again.
Former altar boy BWE has testified he overhead Cardinal Pell tell Fr Frank Madden before a funeral in Ballarat in 1983: “Ha, ha, I think Gerry’s been rooting boys again.”
Cardinal Pell again denied the claim during his fourth day of evidence to the child abuse royal commission from Rome.
“Let me begin by saying that nearly every detail in this allegation is manifestly false,” he said.
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