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02-29-2016, 05:18 AM
Top cardinal admits Catholic Church made 'e**rmous mistakes'
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One of Pope Francis' top advisers ack**wledged Sunday that the Catholic Church "has made e**rmous mistakes" in allowing thousands of children to be raped and molested by priests over centuries as he testified at an extraordinary public hearing of an Australian investigative commission just a few blocks from the Vatican.
SEE ALSO: More than $120,000 raised to send Australian abuse survivors to Rome (http://mashable.com/2016/02/17/crowdfund-george-pell-rome/)
Australian Cardinal George Pell testified via videolink from a Rome hotel to the Royal Commission sitting in Sydney. In the front row of the conference room were two dozen Australian abuse survivors and their companions who had traveled across the globe to be on hand for Pell's testimony, a significant show of accountability in the church's long-running abuse saga. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/28/pell-royal-commission/)
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One of Pope Francis' top advisers ack**wledged Sunday that the Catholic Church "has made e**rmous mistakes" in allowing thousands of children to be raped and molested by priests over centuries as he testified at an extraordinary public hearing of an Australian investigative commission just a few blocks from the Vatican.
SEE ALSO: More than $120,000 raised to send Australian abuse survivors to Rome (http://mashable.com/2016/02/17/crowdfund-george-pell-rome/)
Australian Cardinal George Pell testified via videolink from a Rome hotel to the Royal Commission sitting in Sydney. In the front row of the conference room were two dozen Australian abuse survivors and their companions who had traveled across the globe to be on hand for Pell's testimony, a significant show of accountability in the church's long-running abuse saga. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/28/pell-royal-commission/)
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