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Eugene

(62,623 posts) Tue Jan 10, 2023, 06:00 PM Jan 2023

Cardinal George Pell dies aged 81

Source: Australian Associated Press

Cardinal George Pell dies aged 81

Tara Cosoleto January 11, 2023

Cardinal Pell, the former Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne and Archbishop of Sydney, died on Tuesday evening, AAP has confirmed.

Vatican news outlet EWTN is reporting that his death was due to complications from hip replacement surgery.

He was the Vatican’s top finance minister before he left Rome in 2017 to stand trial in Australia for child sexual abuse offences.

In 2018, Cardinal Pell was convicted of molesting two teenage choirboys in the sacristy at St Patrick’s Cathedral while he was Archbishop of Melbourne in 1996.

But Cardinal Pell always maintained his innocence and in 2020 his convictions were quashed in a unanimous decision by the High Court.

https://www.aap.com.au/news/cardinal-george-pell-dies-aged-81/

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Cardinal George Pell dies aged 81 (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2023 OP

Whether or not he personally abused children, he organised the cover-up muriel_volestrangler Jan 2023 #1

Well bless his piece of shit heart Major Nikon Jan 2023 #2

Good riddance to bad company Act_of_Reparation Jan 2023 #3

muriel_volestrangler

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1. Whether or not he personally abused children, he organised the cover-up

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Tue Jan 10, 2023, 06:52 PM

Jan 2023

Pell is well known for setting up the Melbourne response – the archdiocese’s much-criticised system for responding to claims of clergy abuse – in 1996, while archbishop of Melbourne.

He served as the first prefect for the Economy of the Holy See for five years, between 2014 and 2019. The position is regarded as the third most senior in the Vatican. It was the highest position ever held by an Australian in the Catholic hierarchy.

An Australian royal commission into child abuse found in 2020 that it was “implausible” that Pell did not know why Gerald Ridsdale, a paedophile priest, was being moved from parish to parish in Ballarat.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/11/george-pell-dead-australian-cardinal-dies-aged-81-rome-vatican

Major Nikon

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2. Well bless his piece of shit heart

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Jan 11, 2023, 07:23 AM

Jan 2023

Act_of_Reparation

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3. Good riddance to bad company

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Thu Jan 19, 2023, 04:02 PM

Jan 2023

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