In part, from that link -
Cardinal George Pell knew of Catholic Church child abuse for decades โ and โconsidered measures of avoiding situations that might provoke gossipโ โ according to the child abuse royal commission.
The comments come in redacted portions from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that were released in the Senate on Thursday.
The report shows the commission rejected Cardinal Pellโs evidence that he had been deceived and lied to by Church officials about Australiaโs worst paedophile priest, Gerald Ridsdale, and Melbourne parish priest Peter Searson.
โWe are satisfied that in 1973, Father Pell turned his mind to the prudence of Ridsdale taking boys on overnight camps,โ the report said.
โThe most likely reason for this, as Cardinal Pell acknowledged, was the possibility that if priests were one-on-one with a child, then they could sexually abuse a child, or at least provoke gossip about such a prospect.โ
Ridsdale is Australiaโs most prolific paedophile priest, having been convicted of abusing more than 60 boys over decades.
But what will be the outcome of this report?
Will the Government do anything?
Nah. I didn't think so either.
