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12 December 2017

Royal commission: Monsignor John Usher denies protecting Cardinal George Pell

The former chancellor of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney denied he was trying to save Cardinal George Pell from embarrassment by sticking to his claim about a paedophile priest in the face of conflicting accounts, a royal commission has heard.
In the final day of an inquiry into convicted paedophile John Joseph Farrell, Monsignor John Usher insisted the priest never admitted to crimes against children at a 1992 meeting.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/royal-commission-monsignor-john-usher-denies-protecting-cardinal-george-pell-20160921-grlrmk.html