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Last year I wrote this about the shameful persecution of Cardinal Geroge Pell by police in Victorian courts in Melboiurne Australia: " Cardinal George Pell conducted a mass and was thrown into jail for over 400 days under the state government of Australian Labor Party Socialist Left faction member Daniel Andrews. The High Court Of Australia overturned the conviction of Cardinal Pell 7-0. When I demanded an apology from police because I was appalled by what they did to Pell, they did not reply. This is not a free country. As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said, it is “off the...

Amonth from today, I go on trial on Mickey Mouse charges in Victoria, Australia, as a result of praying with an Aboriginal man and of insistence that Shane Andrew Patten be investigated for his crimes. After assaulting me, police took me to the Cathedral's side and asked me my name. I told them I would give my name if they gave me an event number for a police investigation into Patton's culpability in the false imprisonment of Cardinal George Pell. I did my best to impress on those officers willing to listen to me, that Patton's crimes are much more...

Attacking the vulnerable and elderly and trashing human rights is what police in Australia do best. I have personally witnessed or been the victim of half a dozen police assaults on the innocent in Melbourne. A 95 year old woman tasered by police in aged care in New South Wales has died from the injuries which included a fractured skull. The New South Wales police officer faces three charges of assault. Recklessly causing grievous bodily harm. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Common assault. Will these charges be upgraded to murder? In Victoria, police put their victims on trial. This nation...

Australian prelate suffered complications from hip replacementAs reported by The Australian, Cdl. Pell died in a Vatican hospital on Tuesday of cardiac arrest shortly after having a hip replacement. Catholics and others on social media are expressing sorrow at his passing. Pell was born on June 8, 1941. He was an exceptional athlete as a young man. In 1959, he signed a contract to become a professional Australian rules football player, although he later decided to pursue a priestly vocation. He was ordained a priest forever in 1966. In the years that followed, he went on to earn a doctorate...

ROME — Australian Cardinal George Pell has warned that the wayward Catholic Church in Germany will only grow worse without serious corrections from Rome. There has been much talk in recent years of “synodality” as a key characteristic of the Catholic Church, a vague term used to suggest greater participation and dialogue among the faithful, but such an emphasis can be counterproductive, Cardinal Pell argues in his Oct. 12 essay in the National Catholic Register. There have only been 21 councils in Catholic history, notes the former head of the Vatican’s economic secretariat, and this infrequency is significant. “Neither should...

Craig Kelly is the parliamentary leader of the conservative libertarian United Australia Party. (UAP) He was one of very few people in Australia to speak up against the injustice done against Cardinal George Pell. There is a chance of restoring law and order here. UAP's policy of a Bill Of Rights is unlikely to lead a constitutional Bill Of Rights as in America. Constitutional amendment in Australia is very rare. But if UAP acheive the balance of power in the Australian senate at the election in May, they may have the clout to pass legislative protection of human rights.

Jesuit Cardinal Hollerich of Luxembourg and Bishop Bätzing of Limburg have both called for changes to the Church’s teaching on homosexuality in recent interviews.VATICAN CITY — Cardinal George Pell has called on the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) to publicly reprimand two of Europe’s most senior bishops for what he said was their “wholesale and explicit rejection” of the Church’s teaching on sexual ethics. In a statement released March 15, Cardinal Pell asked the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation to “intervene and pronounce judgment” on comments made by Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, the relator general of the Vatican Synod on...

When Cardinal George Pell was falsely imprisoned three years ago today, few people spoke up. An exception was Craig Kelly who was then a parliamentarian in the Morrison government. Kelly went on national television the next day to say that it was a "grave miscarriage of justice". Subsequently the High Court Of Australia overturned the conviction 7-0. Since then Mr Kelly has resigned from the Liberal Party lead Morrison government to lead the United Australia Party in the fight for freedom. He is what traditional Australia loves to call "a good bloke."

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the disgraced former sostituto of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, has written to Cardinal George Pell, the former prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, declining to explain why he sent millions of euros of Vatican funds to Australia during the run up to Pell’s 2017 criminal trial. In an open letter dated December 22, Cardinal Becciu wrote that he felt forced to respond to recent media statements by Pell which, he said, “were offensive to my personal dignity” and which impugned his decades of curial service. “Believe me,” Becciu said, “I am [writing this letter] against...

The former prefect of the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy sat down for an interview on his three-volume 'Prison Journal' touching on his incarceration, Cardinal Becciu and Vatican finances. When Cardinal George Pell took a leave of absence in 2018 from his post as the inaugural prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy and returned to Australia to stand trial for his “historic sexual abuse” case, he was the highest ranking Church official to be swept up in a decades-long global scandal that has shattered victims and wreaked havoc on the Church’s moral credibility. Convicted in 2018, he would spend...

In 2018 Cardinal George Pell was found guilty in the State of Victoria of raping two choir boys just after leading a mass in a busy cathedral. One of the boys denied being raped but the Cardinal was found guilty. Witnesses said the Cardinal was at the front of the church when the alleged rape was supposed to have taken place but the Cardinal was found guilty. He was imprisoned mostly in solitary confinement for 404 days in his late 70’s. Two days ago (Australian time) the seven Justices of the High Court Of Australia unanimously overturned the conviction. The...

Finally, despite the worst efforts of Victoria Police, Victoria’s legal system, and the media’s smear factory, Cardinal George Pell has had his conviction overturned by the High Court. The full judgment can be read here. “A” refers to the choirboy and “B” to his deceased fellow chorister. Below some key elements of that unanimous ruling:57. In this Court, the respondent correctly noted that a number of the claimed improbabilities raise the same point. It remains that acceptance of A’s account of the first incident requires finding that: (i) contrary to the applicant’s practice, he did not stand on the steps...

Late Breaking News from Australia where its Tuesday. The child sex abuse convictions of Australia's Cardinal George Pell have been overturned.... Lack of agreement on preliminary targets to cut oil production holding up the OPEC+ nations from starting their talks... But other talks between Russia and Saudi Arabia are moving forward.... In Iraq early this morning rockets struck a facility connected with foreign oil firms operating in Iraq including the American Haliburton... There's a report that an American military officer has been killed in an ambush in northeastern Syria.... Easter is coming this Sunday and in Idaho Ammon Bundy and...

Australian TV is showing the Cardinal leaving the prison in what is basically a small motorcade.

The High Court has quashed Cardinal George Pell’s convictions, unanimously allowing his appeal.

Cardinal George Pell is to be released from prison after he won his appeal, and Australia’s highest court on Tuesday overturned his convictions for child sexual abuse. A full bench of seven judges ruled that Pell’s conviction for child sex abuse should be overturned and he should walk free immediately. They unanimously determined that the jury should have had reasonable doubts as to Pell’s guilt and that the jury had not properly considered all the evidence at his trial. Pell, 78, became the highest-ranking Catholic clergyman worldwide to be imprisoned for child sex offenses after he was arrested in 2018...

Cardinal George Pell will be immediately freed from prison after Australia's High Court unanimously overturned his conviction on five counts of historical child sex abuse. The momentous decision, handed down Tuesday by Chief Justice Susan Kiefel, ends a five-year legal battle that started when a man in his 30s approached police alleging Pell had abused him as a child in the mid-1990s. At the time, Pell was Vatican Treasurer and the highest ranking Catholic official to ever be publicly accused of child sex offenses. Pell strenuously denied the charges, which he dismissed in a 2016 police interview as a "product...

Pell was reportedly reprimanded for “interfering in sovereign business” by looking into the Vatican Secretariat of State’s dealings with a Swiss bank with a long track record of violating fraud safeguards.The Holy See’s relationship with a disreputable Swiss bank triggered an internal dispute between the Secretariat of State and Vatican financial authorities. At the center of the conflict was a multimillion-dollar line of credit used to fund a controversial investment in London property speculation. Sources inside the Vatican’s Prefecture for the Economy confirmed to CNA that a substantial part of the $200 million used to finance the Secretariat of State’s...

Democracy. Freedom of Speech. The Presunption of Innocence. The need for guilt to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. These pillars of Western society are under attack from within.

As Cardinal Pell prepares his next and final legal move – an appeal to the High Court – from the discomfort of solitary confinement, amid growing alarm at the rejection of his appeal by a majority of Judges sitting as the Victorian Court of Appeal, much of the recent commentary on the case has focused on post-trial developments. There is emerging concern, not just among Pell’s small army of supporters, or even just Catholics, but among observers of the legal system and those who cherish individual protections under the law, that not only was a wrong inflicted on an innocent...