AUSTRALIA
Catholic Register
BY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
May 17, 2017
SYDNEY – Public prosecutors have submitted recommendations to Victoria Police on whether to try Australian Cardinal George Pell on decades-old abuse allegations, but their advice has not been made public.
Until police decide how to proceed, Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher said he will not be commenting on the case.
“Justice must be left to run its course,” Archbishop Fisher said in a statement May 17.
Archbishop Fisher said Cardinal Pell, currently head of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy, “has cooperated in every way with multiple police, parliamentary and Royal Commission investigations.”
“Everyone supports just investigation of complaints, but the relentless character attacks on Cardinal Pell, by some, stand the principle of innocent-until-proven-guilty on its head,” Archbishop Fisher said. “Australians have a right to expect better from their legal systems and the media. Even churchmen have a right to ‘a fair go.'”
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