Cardinal Pell says it's all an ABC conspiracy - obviously he's been taking lessons from Andrew Bolt.

EDIT: Andrew Bolt says on his blog that it's definitely a conspiracy against Cardinal Pell on the part of the ABC. Personally I don't believe that Pell was ever a person who committed any crimes or we would have heard about it earlier - but I maintain that he was almost certainly guilty of helping to keep the crimes of others covered up, particularly while in Ballarat as the Bishops' administrative chief.

As an aside, I know that the Royal Commission took testimony regarding the Catholic Church, Jehovah's Witnesses and the Orthodox Jewish organisations - does anyone know if there were any other religious groups looked at? Interesting how the religions that were strongly hierarchical were the ones in which paedophilia appears to have flourished, perhaps because it was considered bad form for anyone to contact the police... just a theory.