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March 2, 2016

Cardinal: Bishop committed 'gross deception' about Australian pedophile

David Ridsdale, who was sexually abused by his uncle Father Gerald Ridsdale, shows a yellow ribbon as he speaks with media in front of the Hotel Quirinale in Rome Feb. 28. Australian Cardinal George Pell is testifying via video link from the hotel to Australia's Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney.

SYDNEY - When former Bishop Ronald Mulkearns of Ballarat moved a pedophile priest from parish to parish in the early 1970s without divulging the underlying reasons for the moves, the appointments implied the bishop had confidence in the priest, Cardinal George Pell told Australia's Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Published in International