AUSTRALIA
CNN
By Monica Attard, for CNN
updated 3:35 AM EDT, Thu May 30, 2013
Sydney, Australia (CNN) — Australia’s most senior Catholic has urged the government of Victoria not to change the state’s laws to allow the victims of sex abuse at the hands of clergy to seek higher compensation than currently available.
Cardinal George Pell said this would amount to discrimination against the Australian Catholic Church.
This comes after a tumultuous week in which the victims of church sex abuse heard Cardinal Pell acknowledge the church had covered up the abuse of minors, out of fear the scandal would envelope the faith.
Pell was this week, the final witness in a state government enquiry into the responses to the allegations of child sex abuse by religious and non-government institutions in the state of Victoria. The cardinal also apologized for the abuse.
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