AUSTRALIA
Express
By KIERAN CORCORAN
Feb 22, 2016
Victims of historic sex crimes will witness the pontiff’s finance minister give evidence to a royal inquiry.
Ailing Cardinal George Pell, 74, will speak from Rome to a commission in Australia, where the abuse took place.
A judge running the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse said Cardinal Pell could testify via video link because he is ill.
But some affected by the scandal, which has been rumbling in Australia for decades, will make the trip to Rome to be there in person.
Cardinal Pell, a native of Ballarat, a one-time hotbed of abuse, will be charged with explaining how church bosses responded to the abuse claims at the time.
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