This is not just problematic if the person is innocent - but also if they are guilty. If fair trials cannot occur, how can genuine victims get any sort of justice.
Please read the article. I think it raises real points of concern.
If Pell is guilty, I hope his appeal fails and he rots in prison, and then burns in hell.
If.
I don’t think he’s guilty either. Not only was the “evidence” very shaky (and the “victims” shakier still), but the trial was conducted in true Star Chamber fashion. And, of course, they re-did it until they got the verdict they wanted.
Pell was basically thrown to the wolves by the Vatican because he was involved in the financial reforms that were exposing and breaking up the corruption surrounding Bergoglio and other high-ranking leftists in the Church. He had been appointed to do this and was doing an excellent job - of course, almost everything he did has been undone by Bergoglio and his corruptocracy.
He was also perceived as theologically and morally conservative, and thus when these phony charges came out of nowhere, Francis was only too happy to get rid of him.
I agree. He was railroaded. The prosecution jury shopped.
“The verdict was unanimous.” Suspicious.
Pell is innocent and calling him guilty while real criminal walk. Barry Bonds is still the home run king and Bergoglio is still the pope. Oh well. Pell is just earning a good spot on the next life.
I believe what you're saying is true, too.
Here's an article that explains how they proved that he couldn't have done it, but was convicted anyway.
He was finding a lot of dirt on the Vatican's finances, and I believe he was set up. I've been reading about attacks on him since the late 1990s. They've always hated him in Australia because he was such a conservative. Think of him as the Donald Trump of Australia: the press always attacking him, liberals always accusing him of terrible things, and he was always able to flat out prove he was innocent.
Even secular ("no-friend-of-the-Church") observers in Australia say it was a ginned-up media witch-hunt from the beginning. The Peronist Pope threw Pell to the wolves.
I thought as much as soon as I heard the absurd charge (and this was his third trial on the same charge, right?)
Supposedly after a Solemn High Mass, hundreds of people in the church waiting to greet Pell and shake his hand, particularly because it's his first or second SHM in the Cathedral, a Sunday in Advent --- and he leaves the Recessional Procession, hies himself over to the Sacristy, big open room, sacristans and acolytes milling about, and, wearing his alb (floor-length, no opening at the front, cinctured at the waist) AND over that, his big, flowing Gothic chasuble (similarly floor-length, no opening in the front,and heavy, brocaded --- it needs help from the MC just to get it on and off --- he goes and lifts up, or pushes aside his vestments (which can't be done) in order to ---
It's just impossible. And he does this in 6 minutes --- it was specified 6 minutes --- 20 years ago?
I'm sorry. If he did it, I hope he goes up in flames and they have to scrape his remains off the floor. But if he's innocent, whole lotta people going to Judgment over this.
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...