AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Elle Hunt
@mlle_elle
Monday 7 March 2016
Senior Liberal minister Michaelia Cash has condemned George Pell’s apparent lack of compassion and empathy for victims of abuse in the Catholic Church as being against the teachings of Jesus.
The minister for women was one of five panelists on ABC’s Q&A program on Monday night and was asked whether she thought Pell should be removed from his position in the church.
Pell gave evidence at the royal commission into institutional responses to child abuse in Sydney via video link from Rome over four days last week.
Cash began her answer by acknowledging that she is Catholic.
“What we’ve all seen over the last few weeks – over the last few years – it was that complete lack of empathy.
“Jesus was someone who had compassion and who had empathy. I would expect nothing less from the leaders of our church, especially of those victims in verbalising what they went through, to at least show them compassion and empathy.
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