In his third day of testimony, a Vatican official has denied knowledge
of child sex abuse cases in his native Australia. He says he was
simultaneously kept in the dark, but also changed the culture of
cover-ups.
An Australian commission investigating pedophilia allegations involving the Catholic Church and other social organizations challenged Cardinal George Pell, who is the pope's chief financial adviser, over claims he was unaware of at least two cases of serial pedophilia when he was a locally-based clergy. Speaking via video link from a hotel in Rome, Dell insists church authorities deceived him, not once but twice over child abuse allegations against priests Gerald Ridsdale and Peter Searson.
http://www.dw.com/en/cardinal-tells-commission-of-extraordinary-church-world-of-crimes-and-cover-ups/a-19086444
An Australian commission investigating pedophilia allegations involving the Catholic Church and other social organizations challenged Cardinal George Pell, who is the pope's chief financial adviser, over claims he was unaware of at least two cases of serial pedophilia when he was a locally-based clergy. Speaking via video link from a hotel in Rome, Dell insists church authorities deceived him, not once but twice over child abuse allegations against priests Gerald Ridsdale and Peter Searson.
http://www.dw.com/en/cardinal-tells-commission-of-extraordinary-church-world-of-crimes-and-cover-ups/a-19086444