ROME
Perth Now
March 2, 2016
Charles Miranda in Rome
IF THERE was a single line that attracted unanimous nods of agreement in Cardinal George Pell’s third day in the witness box, it was that he was very much a unique character.
“They realised very clearly I was not cut from the same cloth,” he told the child abuse royal commission hearing sitting in Rome to a couple of stifled chuckles in the room.
For anyone who has sat though his late night testimony there was never any doubt of that.
Never in the field of human conflict have so many, sought to deceive so few.
Cardinal Pell on Wednesday added to the list of those who have deceived him during his rise through the ranks of the clergy to where he is today.
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