ROME
Sydney Morning Herald
March 3, 2016
Nick Miller
Rome: An exhausted but positive Cardinal George Pell said the most difficult moment of his cross examination by the child sex abuse Royal Commission was reading the evidence from abuse survivors.
“It’s been a hard slog at least for me, I’m a bit tired but the Royal Commission process is designed to try to make the situation better for the future for the survivors and to prevent the repetition of all this suffering in the future,” he said.
“So I hope that my appearance here has contributed a bit to healing, to improving the situation.
“All the leadership of the church in Australia is committed to avoiding the repetition of the terrible history of the past and to try to make things better.
“Cardinal Pell said he grieved for the suffering of the people he regarded as “his own people” in Ballarat. He would meet some abuse survivors later on Thursday and “please God that’ll take us a little bit forward”.
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