Diabolical Darkness In The Land Of "The Crucified Cardinal"

The article says that Pell was imprisoned for “saying a mass,” whereas he was actually imprisoned on charges of sex abuse. A later court reversed the verdict, but a later church investigation revealed that he had molested a couple of boys years earlier. Whatever the facts are about his alleged sex abuse, it seems outright false to say that he was arrested simply for saying a mass.

The facts about the case of alleged abuse came out

Pell was accused by a single individual, one of his two supposed victims — the other, who died in 2014, had denied he was abused before his death.

The alleged victim charged that Pell, while fully vested and standing in the cathedral’s open plan sacristy at its most crowded time of the week, physically restrained and raped two teenagers in a window of mere minutes.

The jury was not allowed to hear any evidence which might impune the personal credibility of the accuser, including any criminal record.

The prosecution offered no corroborating witnesses or evidence.

It was proven in court that because of cathedral renovations, Pell only celebrated the 10:30 Sunday Mass twice during the months given by prosecutors for when the attack was supposed to have taken place, and he would have supposedly attacked the boys after one of his first Masses in the cathedral as archbishop.

Pell’s defense team produced dozens of witnesses saying that Pell was highly visible after Mass on both of the Sundays given as possible dates for the assault. On one of the days, he was seen by several people on the cathedral steps after Mass.

On both possible dates of the abuse, witnesses testified that the choir had taped a Christmas performance immediately after the Mass, meaning the two teenagers would have been immediately missed by choir directors if they had been waylaid by Pell.

After months of hearings, Pell’s first trial ended with the jury deadlocked 10-2 in favor of acquitting the cardinal, and a retrial was immediately convened. It convicted him in a matter of weeks.

When Pell’s conviction was overturned by the High Court of Australia in 2020, the judges found that a jury “acting rationally” would not have found enough evidence to convict him.

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“...Yet, the perpetrators can barely be called human. It is almost certain that they are in some way connected with the injustices that Pell encountered during his final years, whether that be the financial corruption that is even now taking place on a grand scale, the international conspiracy that saw him convicted of an imaginary, heinous sexual crime, or the ascension of an unworthy man to the papacy. Perhaps the villains are party to all three injustices. Also, the stench of sodomy is rife in the Vatican, and sodomites are notoriously vindictive creatures.

It must be remembered that Cardinal Pell’s trumped-up child-abuse charges were made known at the same time as his colleagues at the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy were forced to resign. This effectively ended independent scrutiny of the Vatican’s finances. That happened very soon after Cardinal Pell suggested that the “moment of truth” was approaching for the Vatican’s financial reforms. To this day, those financial processes remain murky and the role played by mysterious million dollar payments from the Vatican to Australia has never been discovered. There is little doubt that those funds somehow influenced the plot against the Cardinal.

After his death, the body of George Pell lay in state in the church of St Stephen of the Abyssinians, which is situated in the grounds of the Vatican. While the caskets of prelates are normally left open for public veneration, Pell’s was inexplicably kept closed. Now we know why: the evildoers had abused his body and that fact needed to be kept hidden.

When Cardinal Pell died on January 10, 2023 after a routine hip surgery, many of us were taken by surprise. It is true that he was an elderly man who had endured many trials, but he was robust and had been very active in his efforts to ensure that a worthy pope would be elected at the next conclave. In fact, it is said that Cardinal Pell believed Pope Francis would not be alive for much longer, and this is given as the reason why he stayed in Rome for his operation rather than returning to Australia. Thus it was something of a shock to learn that he had suffered cardiac arrest just hours after his operation, the shock perhaps amplified by this coming shortly after the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI.

After his death, the body of George Pell lay in state in the church of St Stephen of the Abyssinians, which is situated in the grounds of the Vatican. While the caskets of prelates are normally left open for public veneration, Pell’s was inexplicably kept closed. Now we know why: the evildoers had abused his body and that fact needed to be kept hidden....”

“Lawfare In Australia #1 Comments In 2022 by Senior Conservative Craig Kelly About The Socialist Left Imprisonment Of Cardinal George Pell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8znAuM3yr8&list=PL0EUn8oclzyZOem8XYCHA7LXZbNW4djcW ^ | 9th June, 2024 | Ozguy1945
Posted on 6/5/2024, 3:29:35 AM by Ozguy1945

The current Lawfare persecution of President Trump is not the first recent instance of a good man being done over by leftist usurpation of Western justice.

Cardinal George Pell was falsely imprisoned on the testimony of one disturbed young man for an alleged sex crime supposedly committed when about twenty witnesses said that George Pell was actually in front of his church greeting parishioners after a mass.

The High Court Of Australia overturned the conviction 7-0.

This 78 year old man of God spent 13 months in prison.”

Best not to state as Fact what one merely suspects, however reasonably, for fear of susceptibility to Rash Judgment, an offense against Truth.

However, there do seem to be credible considerations of the phrase

george pell police trolling

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Cardinal Pell at 80: His voice will be heard
June 17, 2021
By George Weigel

Fifteen months ago, it looked as if Cardinal George Pell might spend his 80th birthday in prison. A malicious trolling expedition by the police department of the State of Victoria in his native Australia had led to the cardinal’s indictment on manifestly absurd charges of “historic sexual abuse.”

His first trial ended with a hung jury heavily in favor of acquittal; but because of a court-imposed media blackout on the trial, the public did not know that the defense had shredded the prosecution’s case by demonstrating that the alleged crimes couldn’t have happened how, when, and where the complainant said they’d happened.

The cardinal’s retrial ended in an incomprehensible conviction, which was followed by an even more incomprehensible (and feckless) rejection of the cardinal’s appeal. Happily — for the sake of an innocent man’s liberty and the reputation of Australia’s justice system — the country’s High Court unanimously quashed the guilty verdict on April 7, 2020, and entered a judgment of “innocent” in the case of Pell v. The Queen.

Cardinal Pell did not waste his 404 days in prison, most of them in solitary confinement. He wrote a daily journal that has become something of a modern spiritual classic; Ignatius Press has been publishing it in three volumes, the last of which will appear in October. Through his Prison Journal, thousands of people around the world have discovered the real George Pell: a man of rock-solid faith, keen intelligence, deep compassion for the confusions that beset the human race, and a determination to live out the priestly ministry to which he committed himself when he was ordained by Cardinal Gregory Peter Agagianian (runner-up to John XXIII in the conclave of 1958) on December 16, 1966.

I’m happy that so many others have now discovered the truth about this good and great man, not least because he and I have been friends since he spent his post-ordination summer in my Baltimore parish, in between his Roman theological studies and his doctoral work at Oxford. Over that half-century, we’ve discussed just about everything. And while the cardinal has not converted me to the virtues of cricket, we are of one mind on so many other things that we’ve worked in close harness on several occasions.

Thus it strikes me as providential that Cardinal Pell’s 80th birthday falls while the universal Church is being roiled by the German “Synodal Way: a process that, absent a decisive Roman intervention (and perhaps even in the face of that), seems likely to confirm that institutional Catholicism in Germany is in a state of apostasy. Providential, because without George Pell’s leadership as archbishop of Melbourne and then cardinal archbishop of Sydney, Australia might well have become the kind of ecclesiastical disaster area Germany is today — although the Aussies would have gotten there 25 years earlier.

His enemies will never admit it, but Cardinal George Pell saved the Church in Australia from dissolving into a Liquid Catholicism indistinguishable from Liberal Protestantism. He did so by his defense of Vatican II as renewal within tradition; by his reform of the priesthood and his care for sexual abuse victims in the dioceses he led; by his unwavering support of Catholic orthodoxy in the teeth of fierce cultural headwinds that cowed many of his brother bishops; by championing serious Catholic intellectual life in a variety of initiatives; and by hosting Sydney’s World Youth Day 2008, which evangelically energized young Australian Catholics as Denver’s World Youth Day 1993 had done for young American Catholics.

Without George Pell’s leadership and his willingness to stand for the truth against vicious criticism, Catholicism Down Under in 2021 might well look like the moribund Church in much of Germany today, but absent the Germans’ vast, tax-supported wealth.

Cardinal Pell’s work to clean the Augean stables of Vatican finance remains to be completed and questions about possible links between that work and his prosecution remain to be answered. Nonetheless, the cardinal’s grace under extraordinary pressure and the dignity with which he conducted himself before, during, and after his imprisonment have made him one of the most influential elders in the Catholic Church today.

That he lost his vote in a future conclave on June 8 does not mean that he will be sidelined in the really consequential discussions of the Church’s future. He will be very much at the center of those conversations, now wielding the moral authority he has rightly won as a contemporary confessor.

The man I have known and cherished since the summer of 1967 was not built for quiescence.

His voice will be heard. And it will be heard where it counts.

Weigel is a distinguished senior fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

” Whatever the facts are about his alleged sex abuse, it seems outright false to say that he was arrested simply for saying a mass.”

what he actually did beyond reasonable doubt at the mass in question was to conduct the mass

the alleged sexual abuse was impossible

so i stand by saying he was imprisoned for conducting a mass