AUSTRALIA
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March 11, 2016
Written by Tony Webber
Surely god has to take some responsibility.
George Pell has been suitably castigated by his interrogators at the Royal Commission into child abuse.
His description of the church’s behaviour towards child rapists within the ranks, and his place in that institutional behaviour, won him few plaudits.
Often his testimony was directly contradictory.
Pell maintained that he was not aware of specific offenders and the complaints made against them.
Yet he also described the times, and one particular diocese in Ballarat, as lousy with “crimes and cover ups.”
How can you know about crimes, and efforts to conceal them, yet be largely ignorant of their existence at the same time?
He variously explained the fact that this crime and cover-up did not come his way because he was not terribly interested in that aspect of daily life, and also because he was an outspoken lion of truth who would have exposed any wrongdoing if it was revealed to him, except that it wasn’t.
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