AUSTRALIA
Deniliquin Pastoral Times
AAP
Cardinal George Pell has accused the Senate of waging an “extraordinary and unjust” attack against him and interfering with due process.
A Greens motion, agreed to by the upper house in February, called on the senior ranking Catholic clergyman to return to Australia to face allegations of misconduct.
“The use of parliamentary privilege to attack me on this basis is both extraordinary and unjust,” Cardinal Pell wrote in a letter tabled in Parliament on Monday.
“Given that the investigation is ongoing, any calls from the Senate for my return to Australia can only be perceived as an interference on the part of the Senate in the due process of the Victoria Police investigation.”
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