ROME
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Victoria Craw
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AUSTRALIAN Cardinal George Pell will come under international scrutiny when he faces the Royal Commission into institutional responses into child sex abuse, which will be covered by a range of European and North American media.
The Boston Globe, New York Times, BBC as well as European and Australian outlets are expected to show at Rome’s opulent Hotel Quirinale for the Cardinal’s third appearance at the Commission to investigate exactly what he knew about the actions of paedophile priests operating within the Catholic Church in Melbourne.
It comes as US film Spotlight, covering a group of reporters who exposed abuses in the church, vies for up to six Oscars on Sunday evening in Los Angeles.
But despite Pell’s long-awaited testimony, many locals in the Italian capital remain oblivious to the emotionally charged events. On Saturday the hotel was full of Scottish rugby fans in town for the six-nations game with many unaware of what was happening or who Cardinal Pell was.
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