“I’m not here to defend the indefensible,” Cardinal George Pell told an Australian courtroom Monday.
What he did was attempt to explain how one of the most notorious pedophilia rings in the country could have taken place on his watch, how he could have heard about priests who engaged in “misbehavior” — kissing boys, swimming naked with students — and not reported it, how thousands of children were raped and molested by priests in Australia and elsewhere while the Catholic Church did nothing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/29/top-vatican-cardinal-says-handling-of-sex-abuse-that-rocked-australia-was-absolutely-scandalous/
What he did was attempt to explain how one of the most notorious pedophilia rings in the country could have taken place on his watch, how he could have heard about priests who engaged in “misbehavior” — kissing boys, swimming naked with students — and not reported it, how thousands of children were raped and molested by priests in Australia and elsewhere while the Catholic Church did nothing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/29/top-vatican-cardinal-says-handling-of-sex-abuse-that-rocked-australia-was-absolutely-scandalous/
