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Cardinal Pell to face trial on criminal charges in sexual abuse case in Australia

(AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File) In this March 3, 2016, file photo, Australian cardinal George Pell reads a statement to reporters as he leaves the Quirinale hotel after meeting members of the Australian group of relatives and victims of priestly sex abuses, in Rome, Italy. The most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis will return to an Australian court on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, to learn whether he must stand trial on charges that he sexually abused multiple victims decades ago.