The second stage of the public hearing will be held in Melbourne from 23 November 2015.
Cardinal George Pell will front the Royal Commission into child sex abuse in Ballarat, after he offered to return from the Vatican for the hearing.
The Royal Commission issued a statement this afternoon saying Cardinal Pell had offered to give evidence, and they had invited him to appear at the next set of hearings.
It follows fresh allegations Cardinal Pell had turned a blind eye to child molestation by disgraced priest Gerard Ridsdale, heard by a Royal Commission hearing in Ballarat.
Cardinal George Pell is a liability for the Catholic Church and is “finished” as a senior member of the clergy, Neil Mitchell says.
In an interview on 60 Minutes last night, the man appointed by Pope Francis as the commissioner for the protection of children said Cardinal Pell’s position was untenable.
“I think George Pell is finished. He can’t survive this” Neil Mitchell
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The Catholic Church had set aside tens of millions of dollars to compensate sexual abuse victims years before it was prepared to publicly acknowledge the extent of the problem and now has up to $150 million set aside to cover existing and future claims.
The Sunday Age can reveal the church’s insurance company has allocated up to $150 million to cover outstanding and anticipated compensation claims,more than three times the amount believed to have been paid to victims to date.
Many women at a Melbourne ashram at the centre of a sex scandal joined the group seeking healing after surviving rape and sexual assaults elsewhere, advocates say.
Fairfax Media reported on Monday that Mornington Peninsula’s sexual offences and child abuse investigation team were investigating the Shiva School of Meditation and Yoga at Mount Eliza after a number of victims reported alleged abuse there.
It can be revealed that many of the alleged victims were particularly vulnerable, having turned to the ashram and its spiritual teachings to help them with their own personal problems.
Forum: Criminal Abuse in Religious Institutions – Opportunities for Restorative Justice In Good Faith Foundation (IGFF) with the support of Victorian Association for Restorative Justice (VARJ), hosted a forum on current institutional responses with potential for restorative practice in the area of abuses by clergy, religious, spiritual and lay leaders. Experts and participants will consider: critical […]
Paul Hersbach kept his composure until the end. He, like all the 351 victims of child sexual abuse who have lodged claims to the Catholic Church’s Melbourne Response, had been forced to tell their stories to strangers before.
The first time he spoke about his abuse in detail, it was to two people at Carelink, the Melbourne Response’s counselling arm, to explain why he needed access to its services as a primary victim, not a secondary victim. He found this confronting and “exceptionally traumatic”
Follows the twin journeys of a fervently Orthodox Jewish father and his now-secular son, after the son breaks the code of silence in Melbourne’s Orthodox community and goes public with his story of being sexually abused as a student.
They were sexually abused by the clergy and then found themselves targeted by the Church’s lawyers. Why did it happen and who was responsible for the strategy?
This week on Four Corners, reporter Quentin McDermott reveals the systematic way the Catholic Church sought to conceal the sexual abuse of children, using lawyers to minimise the potential financial impact to the organisation.
