AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald

November 18, 2012

Peter FitzSimons

Amid all Cardinal George Pell’s bluster about the forthcoming royal commission, it is clear he does not have the first clue as to what is happening here.

Allow me, Cardinal, to spell it out. While you are free to worship whatever god you choose, it is now clear that generations of Australian children have been interfered with by your sex-maddened priests and, just as is happening all over the world, your church is now going to be called to account for both these actions and its appalling cover-ups.

As to those who, outrageously, support Cardinal Pell in his statement that ”the seal of the Confessional is inviolable” – as in all Australians should obey the laws requiring the reporting of sexual abuse, except the very group identified as being most responsible for that abuse – give yourselves an uppercut.

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