The contrast with the woolly words and waffle of the Vatican’s conference on how to prevent clergy abusing children could hardly have been sharper.
Just two days after the end of the much-heralded summit, which was widely criticised by abuse victims as having achieved very little, an Australian court revealed that Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s third most senior figure, was found guilty of sexually assaulting two choirboys.
Pell is now the most senior Catholic cleric ever to be convicted of child sex crimes.
The case, which dates back to 1996, revolved around accusations that Pell sexually abused and indecently assaulted the two boys, at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne after he caught…
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