George Pell: 'I'm not here to defend the indefensible'. In one of his first responses addressing
systematic abuse in the church, George Pell told the Royal Commission
that the Catholic Church "has mucked things up".
The departure of Father Joseph Doyle from Our Lady of Lourdes church
was announced without warning during one Sunday Mass in late 2005. The
congregation was told Father Joe, as he was known, would retire that
day, after 37 years ministering to the Bayswater parish.