ROME
Herald Sun
Shannon Deery and Charles Miranda
Herald Sun
CARDINAL George Pell will today come under the toughest scrutiny of his career when he is asked to explain how he remained unaware of the child sexual abuse crisis that plagued the Catholic Church.
But he will not be quizzed over a present Victoria Police investigation into allegations he abused up to 10 boys — allegations he emphatically denies.
Cardinal Pell, the Vatican’s third most powerful figure, has long maintained he knew nothing of the crimes being committed by his fellow clergy on hundreds of innocent children across Victoria.
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