Australia’s Catholic Church has done less to protect children

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Australia’s Catholic Church has done less to protect children than its counterparts in similar countries, according to a new report on sexual abuse by a research center at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

The church was rocked in June when Cardinal George Pell, one of the pope’s top advisers, became the highest-ranking Roman Catholic prelate to be formally charged with sexual offenses. He is due back in court in Melbourne in October.