Recent media coverage of Cardinal George Pell’s recall to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has ignited public debate on whether churches are willing to face up to child sexual abuse. Tim Minchin’s “musical attack” on Cardinal Pell has been a lightning rod for debate on social media. Against a background Read more
Cardinal George Pell has strongly denied allegations he sexually abused between five and ten minors between 1978 and 2001. News Corp Australia claimed detectives from Victoria’s taskforce Sano have compiled a dossier containing allegations that Cardinal Pell committed “multiple offences” when he was a priest in Ballarat, and also when he was Archbishop of Melbourne. It Read more
Cardinal George Pell has accused British Prime Minister David Cameron of adopting a “poisonous form of radical moral liberalism”. The cardinal stated this in a foreword to a new book “The Nation that Forgot God”, a collection of essays by different authors. Cardinal Pell criticised Mr Cameron’s push to legalise same-sex marriage in 2014. “Cameron Read more
Cardinal George Pell still has a lot of questions to answer before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. On medical advice he has decided not to risk the long plane flight home from Rome. This makes things much harder for victims seeking closure. It makes things harder for others, including members Read more
Some A$110,000 has been raised to send child sexual abuse survivors to Rome to witness Cardinal George Pell’s latest royal commission testimony. Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has agreed to let Cardinal Pell testify through a video link. This was after it accepted the cardinal’s health meant he could not Read more
Cardinal George Pell will give evidence to a child sex abuse inquiry in Australia through video link from Rome later this month. In a ruling released on Monday, the head of Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Justice Peter McClellan, accepted medical evidence of a risk to the cardinal’s health if he undertook Read more
The Vatican’s finance chief has told new bishops that they must not sell land. Cardinal George Pell addressed recently ordained bishops in Rome last September. The Tablet reported that the text of what he said has been released in a book of all the talks given to the bishops. The Prefect of the Holy See’s Read more
Cardinal George Pell looked “ashen and grey” last month, according to a priest testifying at an Australia inquiry into child sex abuse. Fr John Walshe told a royal commission hearing about a lunch at Cardinal Pell’s apartment in Rome in November. “I couldn’t get over how poorly he looked when I saw him last month,” Read more
A health issue means Cardinal George Pell will not go to Australia this month to testify in person before a royal commission into child sex abuse. The cardinal, currently based at the Vatican, had been scheduled to appear before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse in Melbourne on December 16. But Cardinal Read more
Pope Francis has ordered an unprecedented external audit of the Vatican’s wealth, including St Peter’s Basilica and the Sistine Chapel. The audit will look at financial investments, real estate and cultural assets. It will be performed by Price Waterhouse Coopers and will start immediately, said Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi, SJ. Assets that would never Read more