A priest who
says he accompanied George Pell every time he was at St Patrick’s
Cathedral has challenged one of the most salacious allegations against
the former archbishop of Melbourne — that he abused two teenage choir
boys in a backroom of the Cathedral — in an interview with Victoria
Police.
The priest, who was on
the then-Archbishop’s staff from September 1996 to January 2001 told
police late last year it was “physically impossible for Archbishop Pell
to have been alone with anyone in the Cathedral, before, during, or
after the celebration of Sunday Mass or on any other occasion’’.