The Catholic Church is embroiled in one of its biggest scandals to date after Australia's most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, is convicted of sexually abusing two choirboys in the 1990s.
She and her late husband Anthony dealt with Pell from 1996 as one of the first families to go through the Melbourne Response. Ms Foster said she had taken him at face value, as an archbishop of the Catholic Church, but had been blindsided by his combative response. She said Pell had seemed angrier than they were and challenged them to prove their claims in court.
Altar servers were also coming in and out as they ferried valuable items from the sanctuary, the trial was told. But the prosecution had not planned to call any as witnesses, until two were handed over by the defence with potentially crucial evidence. The first was a man who had kept a diary since 1973, which provided a record of every mass he had attended at the cathedral, the role he had played in it and the name of the celebrant.
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