Cardinal George Pell has said he won’t resign from his role in charge of reforming Vatican finances.
“No, I wouldn’t resign,” he said, when asked by journalist Andrew Bolt in a live interview with Sky News Australia. “That would be taken as an admission of guilt.”
“I mean, if the Holy Father asked me too, I’d point this out, but I’d do whatever he wanted,” he added.
Cardinal Pell, the Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, was speaking after a week of appearances before Australia’s royal commission on child abuse.
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