AUSTRALIA
Huffington Post
Eoin Blackwell Senior Associate Editor, HuffPost Australia
The writer of television comedies Black Books, The IT Crowd and Father Ted has started a crowdfunding campaign to bring Cardinal George Pell to Australia from Rome via chartered ambulance so he can “clear his name” over allegations of wrongdoing.
Writer and director Graham Linehan has started a crowd funder campaign to raise $460,000 to bring Pell from Rome to Australia, with medical staff, as Victoria Police investigate allegations of historic sexual abuse made against Pell.
In December 2015, Pell’s lawyers told the sex abuse Royal Commission he was unable to travel from Rome to give testimony about how the Church responded to child sex abuse allegations because the Cardinal suffered from hypertension.
He appeared by video link in February 2016, where he gave evidence on his response to allegations of abuse made against colleagues in Victoria when he was a rising church official.
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