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PELL CLEARED: Cardinal George Pell will walk free from jail after 400 days behind bars as the High Court QUASHES his convictions for sexually assaulting two choirboys
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 7th April 2020 | Luke Henriques-Gomes

Posted on 04/06/2020 5:13:33 PM PDT by naturalman1975

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1 posted on 04/06/2020 5:13:33 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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YES!!! Justice is done!


2 posted on 04/06/2020 5:15:08 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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Glory and honor and praise to our Lord, Jesus Christ.


3 posted on 04/06/2020 5:17:08 PM PDT by wiley (John 16:33: "In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.")
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To: naturalman1975

Very good news.


4 posted on 04/06/2020 5:18:24 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: naturalman1975

Do some false witnesses get jail time?


5 posted on 04/06/2020 5:19:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: naturalman1975
What was the motive for their lies?

money?
priest hating?
Catholic hating?

I don't care and am delighted that justice was done.

I was just curious.

6 posted on 04/06/2020 5:21:48 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There is only one witness who said Pell was guilty - the complainant. That is part of the reason this was farcical - the unsupported word of one person was given more credibility by the Jury than over 20 witnesses who said it could not have happened.

It is unusual for the complainant in a sexual assault case that fails to face any legal consequences - and in this case, I think that is very unlikely. We know very little about the man - but from what we do know he seems a very sad individual with a very sad history. A lot of people believe he was abused by a Priest - and was manipulated into having false memories of who that Priest was.


7 posted on 04/06/2020 5:22:47 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

Pell just got too close to finding out what was going on in the Vatican Bank.


8 posted on 04/06/2020 5:23:27 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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Some of it was an anti-Catholic witch hunt.

A lot of it was directed at Pell personally who has been the most hated man by the left in Australia since the mid 1990s. I’m not exaggerating in saying that - he has been their bugbear and bogey man for a quarter of a century. It started when he stood up for the Church’s teachings on homosexuality, and increased when he was the most senior and visible Catholic cleric in the country when the child abuse scandals (nearly all of which happened well before he was in charge) became public.


9 posted on 04/06/2020 5:25:13 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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The other accuser recanted on his death bed.


10 posted on 04/06/2020 5:25:14 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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Good. He was railroaded like Joe Paterno was railroaded.


11 posted on 04/06/2020 5:29:50 PM PDT by bjcoop
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In fact, the other alleged victim never claimed to be abused. When his mother asked him, repeatedly, he said he had not been.

He never recanted because he never alleged.


12 posted on 04/06/2020 5:31:24 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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Some of it was an anti-Catholic witch hunt.
A lot of it was directed at Pell personally who has been the most hated man by the left in Australia since the mid 1990s. I’m not exaggerating in saying that - he has been their bugbear and bogey man for a quarter of a century. It started when he stood up for the Church’s teachings on homosexuality, and increased when he was the most senior and visible Catholic cleric in the country when the child abuse scandals (nearly all of which happened well before he was in charge) became public.

Those people who slandered him and lied about him will pay...someday. What goes around...

It's amazing that there is still Catholic hatred around.
Why would anyone care now??
This isn't the Catholic hating 16th century any more.

Homosexual behavior IS wrong, sinful, aberrant and not normal. Every culture thought so. Every culture THINKS so. Every culture will ALWAYS think so.

Those sad, pathetic, aberrant homosexuals should be glad that it's not a crime.

13 posted on 04/06/2020 5:31:58 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: naturalman1975

So the media lied?


14 posted on 04/06/2020 5:32:32 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: naturalman1975

Blessed be God!


15 posted on 04/06/2020 5:32:38 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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I had to look up Joe Paterno.
You're right...he got railroaded!
16 posted on 04/06/2020 5:33:59 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: mware

In some cases, yes.


17 posted on 04/06/2020 5:34:45 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: cloudmountain

good. but that’s a divisive topic on here among some on here


18 posted on 04/06/2020 5:34:59 PM PDT by bjcoop
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good. but that’s a divisive topic on here among some on here

Really? Do some folks believe that Paterno got off and really was the bad guy?

19 posted on 04/06/2020 5:36:24 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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yes! MANY on here. I’m a PSU fan but I originally bought the media line about it, but it was all speculation that they pinned on him. Many ohio state fans on here attack him.


20 posted on 04/06/2020 5:38:03 PM PDT by bjcoop
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