Vatican cardinal denies attempts to cover up child sex abuse in church


  • World
  • Thursday, 03 Mar 2016

Australian Cardinal George Pell is seen on a screen via video link from Rome as he testifies at Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney, Australia, March 3, 2016. REUTERS/via Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse

ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) - A high-ranking Vatican official said on Wednesday he should have done more to stop the sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church, acknowledging that he was told of at least one priest "misbehaving" with boys at an Australian school.

Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican's treasurer, said he did nothing when a boy at a Christian Brothers school in rural Victoria state mentioned the behaviour "casually in conversation" in the mid-1970s.

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