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[Catholic Caucus] Unhinged Miscreants Desecrated the Body of Cardinal PellIt was appalling to learn that a person or persons unknown desecrated the body of Cardinal George Pell before it was returned to Australia. We are told that this happened after the autopsy, that his body was inadequately embalmed, that he was left undressed and that his nose had been broken. This indicates a level of vindictiveness that is hard to fathom, and shows how little regard the perpetrators had for Pell’s family: the ones most affected by this sad event. One can only wonder at the motive: a true Christian...

[Catholic Caucus] Close ‘confidante’ says Cardinal Pell’s nose broken when body sent to Australia by the VaticanLibero Milone, the Vatican's ex-auditor general and former colleague of Cardinal Pell, stated this week the cardinal's death is 'shrouded in mystery.'A close confidante of Cardinal George Pell has attested that the late cardinal’s nose was broken and his body treated with “gross disrespect,” upon the arrival of his body in Australia from the Vatican.In a July 4 program, Sky News Australia host Andrew Bolt commented on what he called a “final insult to a great and innocent man,” namely Cardinal George Pell. Bolt...

A Pennsylvania man is facing criminal charges after flushing his grandparents' ashes down the toilet. Thomas Porter Wells, 33, allegedly did the deed after his mother kicked him out of her house because of his drinking habit and marijuana use. Wells texted his mother later, saying "and soon as you die you'll be going in the same spot where you belong down the (expletive) you (expletive)." **SNIP** Wells faces two counts of abuse of a corpse and criminal mischief.

BEIJING, (AFP) - Outrage is growing over a factory processing dead bodies in northeast China for a German company that puts them on display in major European cities, state media says. The plant, near Dalian city, is used by Body Worlds which was founded by Guenther von Hagens, the German anatomist who has created a stir with his exhibitions of flayed human corpses in a variety of poses, the Beijing Morning Post reported. According to reports in the Chinese media, the plant imports more than 100 corpses from abroad every year, and reprocesses them into about 40 plastinated works of...