ROME
The Australian
June 2, 2017
JACQUELIN MAGNAY
Foreign correspondentEurope
@jacquelinmagnay
REBECCA URBAN
JournalistMelbourne
@RurbsOz
Australia’s most senior Catholic Cardinal George Pell said he was “hanging in there’’ awaiting the decision of Victorian police on whether he will be prosecuted over historic child-sex charges.
Cardinal Pell, looking less robust than when he fronted the specially convened Rome sitting of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse last year, emerged from his Rome home overlooking the walls of the Vatican with another cardinal in tow.
Cardinal Pell, 75, told The Australian he was innocent of the claims being made against him.
“Let me just repeat, I am not guilty of any crime,’’ he said as a posse of special police surrounded his chauffeur-driven car.
“I have co-operated fully and will co-operate fully and I await the decision.’’ When asked how he was feeling, he responded: “I’m hanging in there.’’
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