ROME
Sky News
George Pell has entered his last day in the witness stand at the sex abuse royal commission under pressure.
The Cardinal has been questioned on how he acted when a victim went to him and wanted his help, after reporting abuse from Father Ridsdale at Inglewood.
On Tuesday Cardinal Pell said Father Ridsdale interfering with children at Inglewood was “a sad story and it wasn’t of much interest to me”.
Today the Cardinal said he regretted his statement .
‘I was very confused, I responded poorly…it was badly expressed.’
‘I have never enjoyed reading the accounts of these sufferings and I tried to do that only when it was professionally and absolutely appropriate because the behaviour’s abhorrent and painful to read about.’
Cardinal Pell told the commission on Wednesday the church in the 1970s and 1980s was a world of crimes and cover ups and he was left in the dark about serious sex abuse allegations against priests and brothers in Ballarat and Melbourne.
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