Critics within the church are lining up to sink the boot into the 86-year-old,who has brought a more socially progressive agenda than his recent forebears to the role.
A Pontifical Requiem Mass will be held at St Mary’s Cathedral at 11am on Thursday,February 2 for the late Cardinal George Pell.
How much of the past should remain in the past? Recent news stories about Prince Harry,NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet and Cardinal George Pell all seek to answer this question.
Cardinals,bishops and church officials from around the world gathered at the holy site just four days after the Australian died from complications following a routine surgery.
The memo said the political influence of Pope Francis and the Vatican was “negligible” and that papal writings demonstrate an intellectual decline.
The late cardinal’s values will remain a prominent feature of the Catholic Church in Australia,experts say.
I first met Pell on the football field in the early 1960s. He was a ruckman – a good footballer,but very rough – and I was the umpire. I awarded quite a few free kicks against him.
The ill-fated criminal prosecution and imprisonment of Cardinal George Pell obscures a more profound legacy.
Pope Francis is seeking to reform the kind of church George Pell led here. I pray he succeeds,or it will be diminished.
Neither the sanctification nor hatred directed at George Pell is a fair representation of the man.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said victims and survivors of abuse should be foremost in people’s thoughts.