AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Tory Shepherd
The Advertiser
November 12, 2012
THE country’s most powerful Catholic must address the festering sickness in his church, says Tory Shepherd.
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard announced last night a royal commission would aim to expunge the “vile and evil thing” that is child sexual abuse.
Meanwhile, Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney and the country’s most powerful Catholic, is acting like a child just when he most needs to man up.
In the face of the latest horrific allegations of systemic child abuse and cover-ups in the Catholic Church he has cried, by turns, “It wasn’t me”, and “They did it, too”.
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, a senior investigative cop, has revealed new depths in the scandal that has haunted the church for decades.
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