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1 March 2016

Church ‘made mistakes over sex abuse’

Rome/Sydney - Australian Cardinal George Pell said on Sunday the Catholic Church made “enormous mistakes” and dismissed cases of sexual abuse of children in “scandalous circumstances”, as he became the highest-ranking Vatican official to testify on Church abuse.
Giving evidence in front of abuse victims in a Rome hotel room, Pell told Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse that children were often not believed and abusive priests shuffled from parish to parish.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/church-made-mistakes-over-sex-abuse-1990903