ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Cardinal George Pell, the highest-ranking Vatican official to testify on systemic sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Roman Catholic Church, said on Monday that he has the full backing of Pope Francis.
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The decision to not spend more money on infrastructure did not involve any sort of normal trade-off. We did not get ourselves more health care or education spending because we didn’t spend more money on infrastructure. We just kept millions of workers from being employed.
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