AUSTRALIA
9 News
Victorian Catholic priest has disagreed with Cardinal George Pell over the role of the media in reporting child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, saying most Catholics would be grateful for the exposure.
Cardinal Pell, Australia’s most senior Catholic, said on Tuesday the church was not interested in denying misdeeds but objected to it being exaggerated in the media.
But Father Kevin Dillon, of the St Mary of the Angels Catholic Parish in Geelong, said he disagreed with Cardinal Pell and believed the media had played an important role in its focus on child sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
“I believe most Catholics are probably rather grateful to the media for a focus on something which they find enormously shameful and greatly distressing,” Father Dillon told ABC Radio on Wednesday.
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