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muriel_volestrangler

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

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Jan 10, 2023, 07:52 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

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Cardinal George Pell dies aged 81 [View all] 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