Commentators have joined several archbishops in speaking out against
attacks on Cardinal George Pell in what a major Australian newspaper has
labelled a “witch hunt”, one which “ill-served” the victims of child
sexual abuse of the Catholic Church.
The comments largely follow an interview on 60 Minutes in which
Peter Saunders, a British clerical abuse survivor and member of the
Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, described Cardinal
Pell as “callous”, “dangerous” and “almost sociopathic”.