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While former Australian PM Tony Abbot, who is spending his retirement advocating for right-wing causes and who is Catholic, acclaims Cardinal Pell as "a saint for our times" at Pell's funerals, outside the cathedral, survivors of clerical sexual abuse and LGBTQ people decry Pell's complicity in covering up sexual abuse of minors by priests and his ugly homophobia.
#CardinalPell #SexualAbuse #Catholic #homophobia #TonyAbbott
http://bilgrimage.blogspot.com/2023/02/as-cardinal-pell-is-buried-hes.html
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CW: CW: George Pell, child sexual abuse
George Pell was a convicted child sex offender. He will always be remembered for his crimes, which overshadow his career as Archbishop of Melbourne, then Archbishop of Sydney, and then work in Rome as a Cardinal. Pell was a coward and a liar. For many years, he refused to return to Australia to face justice for his crimes.
I believe accounts of Pell's victims, and think they are far more numerous than the two who eventually made successful convictions. I think the Catholic church and our justice system failed all those victims. We should believe his victims who came forward, and have sympathy for his victims who couldn't speak-up or died before they could see justice.
Pell had the support of Australia's conservative mainstream media, many of who I think knowingly interfered in the legal process in an attempt to sway public opinion and try to change the course of justice. Pell also had the vocal support of our Prime Ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott. This says an awful lot about them as people, and about the moral authority of the LNP.
George Pell deserved to rot in jail for the rest of his life, rather than living in luxury in the Vatican until the age of 81. If the Catholic idea of hell exists, he will now be burning there for eternity.
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