AUSTRALIA
The Advertiser
Lainie Anderson
Sunday Mail (SA)
“SHAMEFUL. Disgusting. Frightening.” I think that’s a fair summation of how many of us feel about children being abused at the hands of clergy.
Late last year, Cardinal George Pell claimed he was too ill to return to Australia to appear for a third time before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Debate has raged ever since. Some believe Pell is pulling a fast one, and it certainly makes you wonder how the 74-year-old is managing to hold down a high-powered financial role at the Vatican when his health is so poorly that he can’t catch a business class flight home to Australia.
One cynic is comedian Tim Minchin who, during the week, released a damning song Come Home (Cardinal Pell) to help raise money for Ballarat church abuse victims keen to be in Rome when the Cardinal testifies via video link from February 29.
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