AUSTRALIA
Braidwood Times
By Josephine Tovey
Nov. 9, 2012
A NSW government MP has called on Cardinal George Pell to resign over his “failure” to properly respond to child sex abuse in the Catholic Church and the institution’s alleged cover-up of numerous crimes.
The Nationals MP for Dubbo, Troy Grant, a former police officer who led the watershed paedophilia investigation of priest Vincent Ryan, said it was time for Cardinal Pell, as Archbishop of Sydney, to “fall on his sword” because the church had never managed to put the interests of victims before its clergymen.
Mr Grant’s call comes after a senior police officer, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, wrote an impassioned letter to the Premier, Barry O’Farrell, urging him to set up a royal commission into the matter.
Mr Grant said the leadership of the church had shown an inability to deal with the issue.
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