AUSTRALIA
AAP via Canberra Times
April 15, 2020
By Karen Sweeney
Cardinal George Pell has admitted he is ashamed of the Catholic Church’s response to child sexual abuse and says he occasionally wishes he had responded differently.
But a week after being freed from prison after the High Court quashed five abuse convictions, he says it grieves him when people accuse him of being anti-victim or not sufficiently sympathetic.
He said he had devoted a lot of time and energy to get justice, help and compensation for survivors of abuse within the church, including in establishing the Melbourne Archdiocese response in the 1990s and later working with Towards Healing in Sydney.
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