EDITOR'S NOTE: The High Court overturned Cardinal George Pell's conviction for historic child sex offences in a judgment handed down April 7, 2020. In a unanimous decision all seven High Court judges found Victoria's Court of Appeal should not have upheld Pell's conviction. It found the evidence could not support a guilty verdict.

The wife of a child sex abuse survivor has posted an emotional video in response to an article in The Age that claimed the Catholic Church knew Cardinal George Pell was at the centre of sex abuse claims dating back decades.

Clare Linane, who is the wife of clergy abuse survivor Peter Blenkiron and who earlier this week wrote an open letter to News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt, which went viral on social media and was republished by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, broke down in tears as she read out several passages from the article.

In particular, she said she was upset and angered after reading claims made by Helen Last, a counsellor hired by the Catholic Church in Melbourne to assist victims of clerical abuse, that "it was alleged to me early that Pell was among a group of offenders from Ballarat to Melbourne".