Posted on 06/27/2020 11:20:52 AM PDT by Marchmain
After spending 13 months in an Australian prison, Cdl. George Pell is ready to publish a personal diary of his experiences, as well as his thoughts on the Church and the world.
Pell, who spent much of his time in solitary confinement, is allowing Catholic publisher Ignatius Press to release his diary, which reportedly includes musings on his life in confinement, his legal case, the Catholic Church and his efforts at reform, as well as U.S. politics and sports.
Ignatius Press told the Associated Press Saturday that the first installment of the 1,000-page diary will likely be published in spring 2021. The company anticipates there will be three or four volumes in the set.
Ignatius Press founder and editor Fr. Joseph Fessio is asking his subscribers for donations, explaining that the publisher wants to give Pell "appropriate advances" for the diary to help offset his many legal debts.
Confidently Facing Accusers
Pell was charged in 2017 with molesting two choirboys in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne while serving as archbishop of Australia's second-largest city during the 1990s.
The cardinal insisted he was innocent of the allegations. Leaving Rome, he returned to Australia voluntarily to fight the charges against him.
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(Excerpt) Read more at churchmilitant.com ...
"Pell 'proclaimed Christ and the Church's moral teachings without fear and with full knowledge of what the cost would be. And he paid the price with good humor and, like Christ, a love of his enemies.'"
I look forward to reading it.
ROME (December 12, 2018) — The Vatican announced Wednesday that it had removed two cardinals implicated in sexual abuse cases from a powerful council of advisers picked by Pope Francis to guide him on matters critical to the future of the Catholic Church.
One of the cardinals is George Pell of Australia, who has been facing charges of sexual abuse of minors in legal proceedings that are subject to a gag order in that country, suppressing news coverage until after they have concluded.
Bergoglio was certainly no friend of Cardinal Pell.
Now what about that saying, “Don’t judge without having heard both sides"?
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