ROME
Herald Sun
March 1, 2016
Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
CARDINAL George Pell on Tuesday uttered words that will stain his reputation forever.
Referring to notorious paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale, Pell fatefully declared: “It’s a sad story and it wasn’t of much interest to me.”
Here is the question now for the royal commission into sex abuse of children: is the Vatican’s third-most powerful leader a liar when he says he never knew what Ridsdale, his colleague, was doing in Ballarat?
Or was he just dangerously indifferent to his responsibilities and to the warning signs that children were being raped?
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