Pell denies bribe attempt

Cardinal George Pell says it is "just not true" that he attempted to bribe or silence the victim of a pedophile priest or that the victim swore at him in anger.

Cardinal Pell has rejected the claim that he asked David Ridsdale, a family friend who was abused by his uncle, notorious paedophile Father Gerald Ridsdale, what it would take to "keep quiet" when David told him of the abuse in a 1993 phone call.

On Thursday David Ridsdale's lawyer asked Cardinal Pell if it was true he had offered Mr Ridsdale financial assistance and that Mr Ridsdale had angrily responded "F*** you George and everything you stand for".

Cardinal Pell, facing a fourth day of questioning via video link from Rome, said the swearing never happened.

"I don't think in fact it's ever happened to my face in 50 years of priesthood and secondly, I would have been absolutely shocked," he said.

The commission heard David Ridsdale called Cardinal Pell in 1993 to tell him he had been abused.

Cardinal Pell said he offered to help Mr Ridsdale but did nothing because he wasn't asked and the offences occurred in Ballarat diocese, while he was now an auxiliary bishop in Melbourne.

Cardinal Pell accompanied Father Gerald Ridsdale into court in May 1993, three months after the call.