Parents have every reason to be enraged by the Pell revelations
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Perhaps the greatest rage-generator of all, though, has been the contemptuous language used by both the cardinal, in his previous comments about child sex offences by priests, and by his eminent counsel, Robert Richter, QC this week.
The memory of words used by George Pell on the second day of his evidence to the royal commission, given by video-link from Rome exactly three years ago, is as fresh as if it happened yesterday.
Denying he knew of the activities of Australia’s worst paedophile priest, Gerald Ridsdale (Pell’s one-time housemate and a man for whom Pell had given character evidence), Pell said once he did hear about it, he considered it “a sad story (which) wasn’t of much interest to me”.
Asked if every priest has responsibility for the safety of children taken into the church’s care, Pell replied “no”.
On Wednesday, his barrister, Mr Richter, described the crimes against children for which Pell had been convicted as “no more than a plain vanilla sexual penetration case” – of year 7-aged choirboys, who were on scholarships at top private Catholic school, St Kevin’s College.
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