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Cardinal George Pell denies lying about being told nothing about the real reason Victorian pedophile priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale was being moved.
Cardinal Pell said he would have remembered if pedophilia was mentioned as the reason for Ridsdale being moved at meetings of then Ballarat bishop Ronald Mulkearns’ advisers in the 1970s and 1980s.
A victims’ barrister Jim Shaw told Cardinal Pell: “I suggest very directly you are lying about this to protect your own reputation.”
Cardinal Pell said: “I say that that is completely untrue and unjustified by any evidence. It is a baseless allegation.”
Bishop Mulkearns knew about abuse complaints against Ridsdale when he moved him between parishes in Victoria’s Ballarat diocese.
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