AUSTRALIA
Radio Australia
[with video]
By Samantha Donovan and staff
Some of the victims of sexual abuse by the clergy do not believe the Archbishop of Sydney’s statement that the Catholic Church has learnt the error of its ways.
In the wake of the Prime Minister’s decision to call a royal commission into institutionalised child abuse, Cardinal George Pell today said he believed many claims involving the church were exaggerated and historic.
“We are not interested in denying the extent of misdoing in the Catholic Church. We object to it being exaggerated,” he said.
“We object to it being described as the only cab on the rank.
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