UNITED KINGDOM
Catholic Herald
by David V Barrett
posted Monday, 8 Jun 2015
Saunders had called the cardinal a ‘dangerous individual’
Cardinal Pell’s lawyer has called on his critic Peter Saunders to withdraw allegations he made on Australian television.
Calling the cardinal “a dangerous individual”, Mr Saunders, a member of the Vatican’s advisory commission on child sexual abuse, had accused him of knowing that a paedophile priest, Fr Gerald Ridsdale, had abused children, which the cardinal has repeatedly denied.
“He has a catalogue of denigrating people, of acting with callousness, cold-heartedness – [it’s] almost sociopathic I would go as far as to say, this lack of care,” Mr Saunders said in the interview.
He went on: “In all the interviews, in all I’ve read, in all I’ve heard, I have seen not a shred of evidence that George Pell has any sympathy, empathy or any kind of understanding or concern for victims and survivors of these crimes.”
Mr Saunders called on Pope Francis to remove Cardinal Pell from his position as Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy.
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