Pell compares priests to truckers as victims given apologies

By Jane Lee, Cameron Houston
Updated August 22 2014 - 7:18am, first published 3:00am
''I wanted to help them": Cardinal George Pell. Photo: Arsineh Houspian
''I wanted to help them": Cardinal George Pell. Photo: Arsineh Houspian

Cardinal George Pell has strongly defended the so-called Melbourne Response as Australia's first comprehensive redress scheme for victims of clerical sexual abuse at the royal commission.