AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
MEGAN NEIL AAP MAY 27, 2013
A $30 million palace or a hostel for Australian pilgrims in Rome?
The Domus Australia is no palace, Australia’s most senior Catholic says.
The “casa per ferie” or holiday home has been drawn into the Catholic Church’s child sex abuse scandal, with Victorian MP Andrea Coote suggesting the church sell its “splendid residence” to help pay compensation to victims.
The cost of the Rome property could have been enough to provide $75,000 – the cap the church places on compensation – to 400 abuse victims, she said.
Cardinal George Pell took exception to the ‘misleading’ classification of the guest house during his appearance before Victoria’s parliamentary inquiry into child abuse on Monday.
He says he has two nice rooms at Domus Australia which he uses as a base while in Rome but it is no palace and is not his home.
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