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TODAY co-host Karl Stefanovic has labelled the Catholic Church’s handling of child sex abuse as “pathetic”, as Cardinal George Pell provides evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse from Rome.
Yesterday, Cardinal Pell told the commission he did not know about repeated complaints against the now-imprisoned pedophile Father Gerald Ridsdale because former Ballarat Bishop Ronald Mulkearns did not tell him.
He has since today admitted “regret” over not informing a bishop after he heard “rumours” of child sex abuse in the church at the hands of notorious pedophile Edward Dolan.
“There were several other high ranking Catholics in the same area he was living in at the time, including the Bishop, who were all culpable collectively,” Stefanovic began, adding “they are all to blame”.
“There’s an argument that they were different times when families, police, churches – plural – and government were more inclined to cover up something too despicable to expose.
“There might have been some truth to that but it’s pathetic.
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