An Australian Catholic Archbishop has said Australian Cardinal George
Pell will return to Australia to answer questions at the Royal
Commission into institutional child sex abuse if he is asked, local
media reported Friday.
Pressure is mounting on Pell, the prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy of the Vatican in Rome, in the wake of allegations he tried to bribe the nephew of pedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale to stay quiet about sexual abuse while Ridsdale was based in the Victorian country town of Ballarat. Further, the Royal Commission heard Pell was told of allegations of child sexual abuse as early as 1974. "(Pell) may not have the intestinal fortitude or the ability to see beyond his own vanity, but it's his ambition that got him there and it will take his humility to get him out of there,"Paul Tatchell, a victim of catholic church sex abuse, told the Royal Commission hearing on Thursday.
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Pressure is mounting on Pell, the prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy of the Vatican in Rome, in the wake of allegations he tried to bribe the nephew of pedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale to stay quiet about sexual abuse while Ridsdale was based in the Victorian country town of Ballarat. Further, the Royal Commission heard Pell was told of allegations of child sexual abuse as early as 1974. "(Pell) may not have the intestinal fortitude or the ability to see beyond his own vanity, but it's his ambition that got him there and it will take his humility to get him out of there,"Paul Tatchell, a victim of catholic church sex abuse, told the Royal Commission hearing on Thursday.
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