Survivors 'Disappointed' Over Pell's Absence from Witness Box

Australia's highest-ranking Catholic has succeeded in his bid to remain in The Vatican, after the child abuse Royal Commission accepted a doctor's report that he's too sick to return to Australia to testify. Image: Cardinal George Pell. (AAP)

Cardinal George Pell will be questioned via video link about his knowledge of clerical sexual abuse in the Victorian Diocese of Ballarat, where he was a priest before becoming a Bishop in Melbourne.

 

The former Bishop of Ballarat, Ronald Mulkearns, has been ordered to give evidence and will also be questioned via video link.