ROME — Australian Cardinal George Pell, a leading Roman Catholic conservative and former top Vatican official who in 2020 was acquitted of sexual abuse…
Fr. Joseph Hamilton told Reuters Pell died in a Rome hospital on Tuesday night. Archbishop Peter Comensoli, the Archbishop of Melbourne, said Pell had died from heart complications following hip surgery.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
He had been living in Rome since his acquittal and had several meetings with Pope Francis. Pell often attended the pontiff’s Masses and Francis praised him publicly after his return. Pell, who denied the allegations, did not take the stand at two trials, the first of which ended with a hung jury. The high-profile case was one of the Australia’s most divisive and some media organizations went so far as to breach a court suppression order barring coverage of the trial.
“His incarceration on charges that the High Court ultimately scathingly dismissed was a modern form of crucifixion; reputationally at least a kind of living death,” Abbott said on Twitter. “His prison journals should become a classic: a fine man wrestling with a cruel fate and trying to make sense of the unfairness of suffering.
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