Posted on 03/12/2019 4:28:50 PM PDT by naturalman1975
I hope this thread will last as the last one was pulled because it didn't have a link - because I can't extract a link to use. I'm watching this live on Australian television. I am watching the Pell verdict. The Judge has made two points I find interesting. (1) That he does believe there has been a witch hunt against Pell. (2) That he, as the judge, is obliged to sentence on the basis of the jury's verdict, and not to second guess that verdict.
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If he is convicted and given time, he’ll have to find something to do in prison. Bible classes? Religious instruction?
He has been convicted, although he is appealing that (and frankly, I have very serious doubts that he is guilty and I am hardly alone in that).
What I am actually watching is the sentencing, but trying to set up a second live thread, lead to an error on my part in the heading.
If he is innocent, he should walk free. I have no opinion on his specific case.
As to clergy who have abused, they should meet some accounting, whether through the Church (seemingly unlikely) or the civil justice system.
Thank you.
They will release him to the general prison population who will kill him, which is what the authorities desire.
The general prison population might kill him because he’s a conservative Catholic, but everybody, prisoners included, know that he’s not a child molester and that he was railroaded at the behest of the anti-Catholic Austrialian government (and Pope Francis, who was finding Pell uncomfortable because he was looking into Vatican finances and naively thought that Francis wanted him to do something about the corruption).
Who knows, he might end up a hero with the prison population. Also, he is a very devout man, so he might even do some good by suffering injustice patiently.
I know he is innocent as this could not happen as the Crown said it did. I was talking to a cleric yesterday, he has been an MC for high churchmen many times. I asked what he would do if a high ranking prelate left the recessional before it got to the front door. Of course he answered that he would go after the prelate to make sure that he was OK. Obvious, I know, but the Crown could not figure that out, or anything else. I pray for Cardinal Pell every night, I honor his suffering at the hands of the pagans.
Sentence is six years with a non parole period of three years and eight months.
And Pell is 77 years old.
I pray for him too.
IOW I think that priests should be allowed to marry.And I suspect that I'll get at least one or two responses (as I always do) in disagreement.
Australia has recently carried out a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse. The final reports on that haven't been released yet, but what we already know from that commission - which was largely set up out of concern about the Catholic Church - is that sexual abuse of children was just common in the Catholic Church, but also in a wide range of other denominations, and in non-Christian and non-religious groups as well. In fact, looking at the raw statistics, at the moment it looks like sexual molestation of children in the Catholic church was actually significantly less common than in certain other denominations - the Catholic Church has attracted a lot more attention, but when you actually dig deeper...
My mom told me she thinks he’s innocent, framed because he went after the Pope. Is that so?
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