AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Charlotte King
Australia’s most high-profile Catholic Cardinal George Pell will learn this afternoon whether he will be able to give evidence to the child abuse royal commission from Rome.
Access to Cardinal Pell’s two-page medical report was given to counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse at Friday’s hearing, on the condition the details were not published.
His lawyers applied for the 74-year-old to be able to appear via an audio visual link at hearings of the inquiry dealing with abuse in Ballarat.
A Ballarat victim of child sex abuse criticised Cardinal Pell, saying he was demanding more from the royal commission than had been offered to survivors.
Abuse survivor David Ridsdale said there needed to be transparency surrounding the reasons given for the Cardinal not wanting to appear in person.
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