Church leaders were not doing anything that unusual when they covered for Ridsdale and his ilk.
Was anyone not moved to despair, or maybe even outrage, watching Cardinal George Pell's evidence at the royal commission on child sexual abuse? Even if Pell didn't know, as implausible as it looks, that Father Gerald Ridsdale and a cabal of priests and brothers was systematically raping children in the 1970s and '80s, his church's guilt is palpable.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/pell-testimony-different-times-but-the-right-questions-werent-asked-20160304-gnasb9.html
Was anyone not moved to despair, or maybe even outrage, watching Cardinal George Pell's evidence at the royal commission on child sexual abuse? Even if Pell didn't know, as implausible as it looks, that Father Gerald Ridsdale and a cabal of priests and brothers was systematically raping children in the 1970s and '80s, his church's guilt is palpable.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/pell-testimony-different-times-but-the-right-questions-werent-asked-20160304-gnasb9.html