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7 March 2016

Vatican finance chief admits ignoring claims priest abused children

Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis’s trusted finance minister, has admitted that he ignored claims a priest was sexually abusing children, the first admission of its kind from such a senior figure in the Catholic Church.
Giving evidence to an Australian royal commission on abuse, Cardinal Pell revealed how a schoolboy complained to him in the mid-1970s that a priest was “misbehaving” with boys at a school in his native Australia.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4704922.ece