‘Cardinal George Pell has said he will return home to Australia to defend himself – a turnaround from last year when he refused to fly home to give evidence on child abuse.
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When the reforming Pope Francis set up an advisory council of cardinals soon after his election in 2013 and appointed, alongside his fellow liberals, the arch-conservative Cardinal George Pell, it caught the Catholic church by surprise. So did Pell’s later appointment as the pope’s chief financial adviser. But it also made sense: Pell is a bruiser and if the byzantine workings of the Vatican and its mired-in-scandal financial operation needed sorting out, then Pell could be the prelate to knock heads together.
Now, though, Francis may well regret his choice of attack-dog-in-chief. For Australian Pell’s place at the side of the pontiff has brought the church’s child sex abuse scandal right into the heart of the Vatican. Pell has been charged with alleged historical sexual assaults on children.
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http://yournewswire.com/pope-francis-alt-media/
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