Cardinal George Pell leaves HM Prison Barwon in Geelong, Australia April 7, 2020. — AAP Image via Reuters
“Christians see Christ in everyone who suffers — victims, the sick, the elderly — and are obliged to help,” Pell wrote in his Easter message in the Weekend Australian, accompanied by a photograph in which he wears his cardinal's robes. “The sexual abuse crisis damaged thousands of victims,” Pell, who was acquitted by the High Court on appeal, wrote in his piece. “From many points of view the crisis is also bad for the Catholic church, but we have painfully cut out a moral cancer and this is good.”