Details of the investigation emerged a week before Pell was due to give evidence to an Australian inquiry into abuse by priests in a town near Melbourne VATICAN City — Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell on Friday dismissed accusations he sexually abused boys during his time as a priest. The claims are reportedly being investigated by Australian police."The allegations are without foundation and utterly false," a statement issued by Cardinal Pell’s office in Rome read after the Herald Sun newspaper reported that a police taskforce in the state of Victoria had been investigating the cardinal for the last year, over allegations that he abused up to 10 boys.Details of the investigation emerged a week before Cardinal Pell was due to give evidence by video link to an Australian inquiry into abuse by priests in the town of Ballarat, near Melbourne.The 74-year-old cardinal has been derided for saying he is too ill to make the journey home to testify in person over alleged cover-ups ...
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