In general, Australian media and public opinion have not been kind
to Cardinal George Pell, basically turning the 75-year-old Vatican
financial czar into the country’s leading symbol of child sexual abuse
scandals in the Catholic Church.
That campaign reached a crescendo in February, when Pell testified before a Royal Commission via video link from Rome about his time as a priest in the city of Ballarat and later as the Archbishop of Melbourne.
http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2016/04/26/case-for-the-defense-of-cardinal-pell-heard-in-australia/
That campaign reached a crescendo in February, when Pell testified before a Royal Commission via video link from Rome about his time as a priest in the city of Ballarat and later as the Archbishop of Melbourne.
http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2016/04/26/case-for-the-defense-of-cardinal-pell-heard-in-australia/