AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Cardinal George Pell needs to acknowledge the Catholic Church got it wrong in handling child sex abuse by clergy, survivors say.
Ballarat-born Cardinal Pell should be leading church efforts to help victims, particularly in the Victorian regional city, Ballarat clergy abuse survivor Philip Nagle said.
“George is the one that should be standing up and saying ‘hey we got this wrong and this is what we’re going to do to fix it’,” Mr Nagle told AAP.
“Being the third most powerful person in the church, he has the power to do that.”
Mr Nagle is among a group of 15 survivors headed to Rome to be there when Cardinal Pell gives evidence about widespread abuse by clergy in the Diocese of Ballarat and the Melbourne archdiocese.
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