Victorian premier says those abused ‘at the hands of the Catholic church’ foremost in his thoughts
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Daniel Andrews says a state funeral will not be offered for Cardinal George Pell by the government out of respect for victims of institutional child sexual abuse.
Pell, Australia’s most senior Catholic and a former archbishop of Melbourne, died on Wednesday morning (AEDT) from heart complications arising from hip replacement surgery in Rome. He was 81.
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