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25 August 2015

Bishop critical of Pell on abuse response

Cardinal George Pell destroyed the unity of the Catholic church in Australia when he dropped a 'bombshell' by launching his own response to abuse victims, a bishop has told the child sex abuse royal commission.
Retired Bishop Geoffrey Robinson said the establishment of the Melbourne Response by then Archbishop Pell in 1996, months before the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference launched the nation-wide Towards Healing, was totally unexpected.

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2015/08/24/bishop-to-recall-row-with-papal-nuncio.html