Three former Catholic Church officials
have directly challenged evidence from Cardinal George Pell, who claimed
to have been “deceived” and made the victim of a “cover-up” over the
activities of a paedophile priest.
The former Melbourne
Catholic Education Office officials told the Royal Commission into
Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse today they were in “shock,
“disappointed” and “angry” at the Cardinal’s claims, which were “quite
wrong”. Giving evidence to the commission last month, Cardinal Pell, now a senior Vatican official, accused the Education Office of keeping from him reports of violent and sexual misconduct by the late Peter Searson.
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