AUSTRALIA
Noise 11
by PAUL CASHMERE on FEBRUARY 23, 2016
South Melbourne priest Father Bob Maguire added further to his comments about George Pell and Tim Minchin earlier this week clarifying his feeling for the Catholic Cardinal saying he is “not the greatest admirer (in Church matters) of Cardinal Pell”.
Father Maguire says Tim Minchin has done sexual abuse victims a favour releasing the song. “Its the kind of thing that victims of clerical abuse needed to hear in the public forum,” Father Bob said. “Tim Minchin’s done them a favour”.
Tim Minchin released his damning ‘Come Home (Cardinal Pell)’ about the Australian cardinal George Pell, the third highest ranking Catholic in the world. Pell has angered abuse victims by calling in sick for the Royal Commission into sexual abuse next week and instead choosing to stay in exile in The Vatican and give evidence via a video link from halfway around the world instead.
When Minchin released the song last week it shot to number one on Australia’s iTunes chart generating a response from Melbourne’s Archbishop Denis Hart who took the side of Pell and not the victims over the song’s content.
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