Cardinal George Pell dies aged 81

[Eugene]

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/

[muriel_volestrangler]

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

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]

2. Well bless his piece of shit heart

[Act_of_Reparation]

3. Good riddance to bad company