On the day Cardinal George Pell, one of the highest ranking Vatican officials, w...
BALLARAT, Australia - On the day Cardinal George Pell, one of the highest ranking Vatican officials, was publicly revealed as a convicted child sex offender, his old high school in an Australian goldfields town physically scraped his name from one of its buildings.
“We believe the decision to revoke those various honors is the appropriate course of action for the best interests of the boys who walk through the front gates of St Patrick’s College each and every day,” principal John Crowley told Reuters on Wednesday, a day after Pell’s conviction was made public.
But a government-ordered inquiry in 2013 started to expose wide-ranging allegations of clerical child abuse and cover-up, with Ballarat at its epicenter. Pell testified at the hearings, mostly about his knowledge of complaints in the 1970s and 80s. He was not named as an alleged perpetrator at the inquiry.
“If you went into the church it was the best thing ever that could happen and it gave your family elevated status - it was what everybody was hoping for actually.”
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