AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
November 17, 2012
Ross Peake
George Pell now has the unlikely mantle of The Great Uniter.
He has unexpectedly drawn federal politicians from all parties together for a meeting of minds, in revulsion and disgust against his views.
The nation’s leading atheist Julia Gillard is joined by the conservative Catholic Opposition Leader in opposing the cardinal as he clings to the notion that the law of the Vatican overrides the law of this land. Why should a priest who is told of sex abuse not be required to report this to police?
And many Australians would just see Pell as an embarrassment, noting his quick dismissal of the row over child sex abuse as a media ”beat-up”.
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