AUSTRALIA
Courier Mail
Daniel Fogarty From: AAP May 24, 2013
ANTHONY Foster hopes an uncomfortable and unfamiliar environment will open cracks in the armour of Australia’s most senior Catholic, bringing out the truth about the decades-long child sexual abuse scandal.
Away from the church’s army of lawyers and spin doctors, Cardinal George Pell will spend several hours alone at a table on Monday answering questions from a hard-hitting committee determined to get answers.
There will be questions about whether he personally knew of abuse and covered it up, about abusing priests being moved from parish to parish, victims being ignored and about victims who have ended their lives because of the pain of sexual abuse.
Cardinal Pell won’t be able to refuse to answer when he appears before the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into child sex abuse.
Victims and their supporters expect Cardinal Pell – the former archbishop of Melbourne and current Sydney archbishop – to begin trotting out familiar Catholic Church lines, but know he will face tough questioning and hope he will stumble.
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