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Top Catholic Official compares Vatican to a trucking company [View all]
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/631776/top-vatican-figure-in-row-over-child-abuse-commentsAustralia’s leading Catholic cleric George Pell, a top Vatican official, came under fire Friday after drawing an analogy between the church’s response to child abuse and a trucking company.
Cardinal Pell, a former archbishop of both Melbourne and Sydney before taking up a high-powered job this year as head of a new Vatican finance ministry after being handpicked by Pope Francis, made the comments Thursday.
He acknowledged to a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Melbourne that the church had a moral obligation to the victims of pedophile priests.
But he suggested that when it came to its legal responsibility, the actions of its priests were not necessarily the fault of the church, citing the hypothetical example of a woman being molested by a truck driver.
The Vatican is also claiming immunity from turning over important documents to the Australian Commission.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2014/s4011316.htm
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