AUSTRALIA
Sky News
The royal commission into child sexual abuse is set to consider whether Cardinal George Pell has the capacity to front hearings set for later this month in Ballarat.
Cardinal Pell, who is based in Rome where he manages the Vatican’s finances, was initially scheduled to give evidence in Melbourne in December, but cancelled because of a worsening heart condition.
The commission wants to hear testimony from Cardinal Pell, as well as former Bishop of Ballarat Ronald Mulkearns, about decades of sexual and physical abuse at schools run by the Catholic clergy.
A directions hearing will be held on Friday when chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Justice Peter McClellan, will consider the capacity of both men to give testimony on February 22 at a third hearing into events in Ballarat.
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