This was 42 years ago. People didn’t take this as seriously as they do now. I remember someone dismissing this kind of behavior as some sort of “horseplay”. Years pass and we know better now (just how destructive homosexuals are). Cardinal Pell is one of the good guys, I’m sure he’s wiser now.
Gerald Risdale raped at least 50 little boys that we know of. He was convicted of 138 separate offenses.
Cardinal Pell had this to say:
“There were audible gasps when at one point during an exchange over video link to Sydney, Pell said of Ridsdale’s abuse: “It’s a sad story and it wasn’t of much interest to me”.