The ABC promoted this supposition, endlessly and shamelessly, on many of its programs.
The current ABC is not the same ABC that interviewed intelligent people like Christopher Hitchens, and revealed the dirty linen of the Bejkle Petersen era.
And for the record I will declare that I have no idea if Pell is guilty or not, of these charges. Nothing surprises me anymore, but in this case, it sounds and looks like a deliberate attempt to bring down Pell in order to further demean the RC Church, which is opposed to one of the ABC's favourite hobby horses; homosexuality.
