ROME
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Cardinal George Pell concedes he should have done more when he was told of rumours about a Christian Brother’s activity with children in the 1970s.
Cardinal Pell has said he heard vague and unspecific rumours about Brother Edward Dowlan from about two students and two priests, but was told by the school chaplain at Ballarat’s St Patrick’s College that the Christian Brothers were dealing with it.
“I regret that I didn’t do more at that stage,” he told the child abuse royal commission.
Cardinal Pell said he did not take any further action to determine what the Christian Brothers did about Dowlan after speaking to the chaplain.
“No I didn’t, but I soon became aware that Dowlan was shifted,” he told the inquiry from Rome on the third day of his evidence.
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