On 29 February 2016, Australian Cardinal George Pell began nearly 20 hours of giving evidence to the country's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
via videolink from Rome. His testimony was part of the commission's
public hearings into how the Catholic Church handled cases of child sex
abuse involving clergy within its institutions.
George Pell grew up in Ballarat and was a priest there in the 1970s and 80s. During that time, he lived in a house with notorious convicted paedophile priest George Ridsdale in 1973. Pell went on to become a bishop in Melbourne in 1987 and continued moving up in the church's hierarchy. In 2014, Pope Francis appointed him head of the Vatican's Secretariat for the Economy.
https://globalvoices.org/2016/03/09/world-spotlight-on-australias-cardinal-pell-at-rome-child-sexual-abuse-hearing/
George Pell grew up in Ballarat and was a priest there in the 1970s and 80s. During that time, he lived in a house with notorious convicted paedophile priest George Ridsdale in 1973. Pell went on to become a bishop in Melbourne in 1987 and continued moving up in the church's hierarchy. In 2014, Pope Francis appointed him head of the Vatican's Secretariat for the Economy.
https://globalvoices.org/2016/03/09/world-spotlight-on-australias-cardinal-pell-at-rome-child-sexual-abuse-hearing/