Catholic apology represents 'cultural shift'

Updated December 24 2012 - 3:41pm, first published 3:36pm

Victims’ support groups say the Catholic Church could be preparing to acknowledge its involvement in historic child sexual abuse in Australia after Cardinal George Pell apologised to those who ‘‘suffered at the hands’’ of priests.

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