AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
AAP
There is a case for a judicial tribunal to consider how Bishop Ronald Mulkearns handled clergy accused of child sexual abuse, Cardinal George Pell says.
In evidence via videolink from Rome, Dr Pell said he could not give “book, chapter and verse” about what Bishop Mulkearns knew and did not act upon at particular times.
Bishop Mulkearns, who is now in his 80s and dying of cancer, was bishop in Ballarat, Victoria, from 1971 to 1997.
Dr Pell told the sex abuse royal commission there was a purpose to the way Bishop Mulkearns dealt with Gerald Ridsdale and other alleged pedophile priests.
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