SYDNEY, Jan 11 — In death as in life, Cardinal George Pell split opinion in Australia: while believers today mourned the passing of a “great churchman”, sexual abuse...
SYDNEY, Jan 11 — In death as in life, Cardinal George Pell split opinion in Australia: while believers today mourned the passing of a “great churchman”, sexual abuse survivors said they would shed no tears.
“It was very sad personal news to hear and quite a shock,” said Archbishop of Melbourne Peter Comensoli. “I am a sinner, all of us sinners. And all of us in that sense have failed in different ways,” Comensoli added. Although cleared by the courts, a separate government inquiry criticised Pell’s indifference to sexual abuse claims inside Australia’s Catholic Church.
“There’s no joy in anyone dying of course, but a lot of the survivors will be very hard-nosed about it all,” he said.Australian lawyers, meanwhile, confirmed they would press ahead with a civil case listing Pell’s estate as a co-defendant.
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