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Cardinal George Pell will take the stand during a public child sex abuse hearing in Sydney to explain his handling of an abuse complaint.
The man who will control the Vatican’s purse strings, Cardinal George Pell cut his financial teeth by bean counting when it came to compensating Australian victims of Catholic Church child sex abuse.
That’s the harsh hypothesis the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will test at a public hearing opening in Sydney on Monday.
It is looking at the response of the Catholic Church to the complaint of child sexual abuse made by John Ellis.
Ellis famously started civil action in 2004 against the church and Dr Pell over abuse he suffered as an altar boy at the hands of priest Aidan Duggan in the Sydney parish of Bass Hill from 1974 to 1979.
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