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Fury over Pell Absence from Abuse Inquiry Opens Purse Strings

By Wendy Tuohy
Courier Mail
February 16, 2016

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IF people’s willingness to put their hand in their pocket to help fund something that makes them furious counts, then Cardinal George Pell’s abstention from coming home to face the child sex abuse royal commission is making him one unpopular guy right now.

People *really* want him to look child sex abuse victims in the eye, so much so in just 15 hours more than 75,000 have clicked on the scathing new song Come Home Cardinal Pell by hit Aussie comedian Tim Minchin, who released it to demand Pell speak face to face with the church’s victims.

A massive groundswell of protest about the Cardinal’s absence from the hearings of the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse (of which complaints against clergy make up the bulk of submissions) is peaking today as people put money and shares behind a campaign to get the churchman home.

To mangle the famous line from Hemingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls, the priest is getting the message ‘Ask not for whom the Pell tolls, it tolls for thee’.

And isn’t it heartening to see how much the wider community cares about what happened to innocent little boys whose childhoods were stolen by paedophiles.

 

 

 

 

 




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