AUSTRALIA
The Courier
By FIONA HENDERSON May 27, 2013
No questions have been asked about Cardinal George Pell’s time in Ballarat in the 1970s at the state government inquiry into institutionalised child abuse.
Cardinal Pell was in Ballarat at the same time as disgraced paedophiles Gerald Ridsdale, Edward Dowlan, Robert Best and Stephen Farrell.
It was expected Cardinal Pell would be asked what he knew of their child sexual abuse but was not quizzed at all.
Instead, he was asked to publicly denounce former Ballarat bishop Ronald Mulkearns.
Cardinal Pell told the inquiry he would take the request by committee member Andrea Coote on notice.
Ms Coote’s request came after former Pope Benedict said there were grave judgement errors and leadership failures in the treatment of Irish paedophile priests.
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