The Pope has let Cardinal George Pell retain his title and is not planning to take action until he has exhausted his rights of appeal, the Vatican said in a short statement issued on Tuesday.
Cardinal George Pell leaves the County Court in Melbourne where was found guilty of historic sexual offences."We have the utmost respect for the Australia judicial authorities, and out of this respect we await the outcome of the appeals process," the spokesman said. "Cardinal Pell maintains his innocence and has a right to defend himself until the last stage of appeal."
Veteran Vatican watcher Valentina Alazraki said it was not a good look for the Vatican to be seen to take so little action on Pell so soon after the Vatican child abuse summit. On the weekend, Alazraki addressed the world;s senior bishops at the Vatican abuse summit, telling them journalists would be "your worst enemies" if they did not "decide in a radical way to be on the side of the children".
On Tuesday, Alazraki said there were "a lot of words and not many concrete results" from the summit, but she conceded three days was too short a time to make significant changes to church policy. In October 2018 Pell was removed from the influential Council of Cardinals, or the Group of Nine , an inner circle of the church’s most senior figures appointed in 2013 to advise the Pope on church reform.
Wonder what the NRL think about that?
Retain title of 'pedo Pell, fiddler of Oz'
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