1. juni 2015
60 Minutes broadcasts an extraordinary development surrounding Australia’s most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell.
“I think it’s critical that George Pell is moved aside, that he is sent back to Australia, and that the Pope takes the strongest action against him.” These are the damning words of Peter Saunders, the man handpicked by Pope Francis to sit on the new Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
In an interview with Tara Brown in Rome, Peter gives a wide-ranging and damning assessment of Cardinal Pell’s actions to date, and calls for Pope Francis to move against him.
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60 Minutes Videos Extended Interview | Peter Saunders
A victim of sexual abuse himself, Peter understands, "the pain, the shame, the self-loathing," that survivors feel.
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Loss of Faith – Part 1
The accusation is simply this: That 10 years ago Archbishop George Pell offered money to silence the tragic victims of a predator in the Catholic Church.
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Loss of Faith – Part 2
Archbishop George Pell responds to the allegations he attempted to bribe victims who'd been sexually assaulted by a priest.
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Loss of Faith – June 2002
A Catholic priest reveals damning new information, the troubling story of another victim who was paid to keep quiet about the abuse he suffered.
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Search for the Truth
In 2013 Cardinal Pell gave evidence about his 1997 meeting with Anthony and Chrissie Foster, but it's a different story to what he told Richard Carleton 11 years ago.
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Joshua J. McElwee, National Catholic Reporter, skriver bl.a.:
The Vatican's main spokesman has downplayed comments made about Australian Cardinal George Pell by a member of Pope Francis' commission on clergy sexual abuse, saying the member was speaking in his own name and not in the authority of the commission.
Commission member Peter Saunders, an English survivor of clergy sexual abuse, said in an Australian television interview Sunday that Pell had had an "almost sociopathic" disregard for abuse victims.
Responding to Saunders' interview, Vatican spokesman Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi said in a statement Monday that Saunders was speaking in his own name. The papal commission on clergy sexual abuse, Lombardi said in the statement, "does not have the task of investigating and pronouncing specific judgment on single cases."
The Vatican spokesman also referred journalists to Pell's own statements on the matter, saying those "must be considered reliable and worthy of respect and attention."
Saunders serves as one of 17 members of the papal commission, which is formally known as the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. He made his comments about Pell on Sunday on the popular television program "60 Minutes," the Australian version of the U.S. newsmagazine broadcast.
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abc.net.au skriver bl.a.:
Royal commission into child sexual abuse will call Cardinal George Pell to second Ballarat hearing
Cardinal George Pell will be called to the royal commission into child sexual abuse's second hearings in Ballarat, the commission has said.
Cardinal Pell wrote to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on May 21 saying he was willing to appear before the inquiry.
In a statement released on Monday afternoon, the commission said that he would be called to appear when the inquiry meets again in Ballarat, later this year.
"In the ordinary course, witnesses are summonsed to appear at a hearing," the royal commission said in a statement.
"However a person resident overseas cannot be summonsed.
"The chair has received a letter from Cardinal Pell indicating that he is prepared to come to Australia to give evidence.
"The royal commission will ask him to give evidence in the second of the Ballarat hearings."
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2. juni 2015
abc.net.au skriver bl.a.:
Vatican observer says Pope would not protect Cardinal George Pell, questions abuse commissioner's accusations
A leading Vatican observer has defended Pope Francis in the wake of accusations made against Australian Cardinal George Pell by a member of the Vatican's commission on child protection.
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