The Vatican’s Australian finance controller was cleared today to testify
at a child abuse inquiry in his homeland via videolink because of a
heart condition, a ruling bound to frustrate victim groups who wanted
him to appear in person.
Cardinal George Pell, once seen as a contender
to become pope, was scheduled to testify at the Royal Commission into
Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on December 16 but asked
to give evidence by videolink instead.
