AUSTRALIA
Whitsunday Times
Owen Jacques 25th Mar 2014
UNDER questioning by the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse, Cardinal George Pell could not avoid being defensive.
He was quizzed on the rules of the church’s own “Towards Healing” program, a project designed to right the wrongs perpetrated by predators within the clergy.
Towards Healing was nothing but a pleasant-sounding title for John Ellis.
His years of abuse as a teenager left scars open for decades.
After a lifetime of denial, his brave confrontation with the church was rewarded with a tersely-worded letter saying it would not believe his story.
There would be no help, no support and no apology.
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