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The stories in REMEMBERING GEORGE CARDINAL PELL show the depth and breadth of Cardinal Pell’s humanity. While much has been written to vilify him in the popular press by those who opposed his ideas, ...
Cardinal George Pell: The Encourager COMMENTARY: He was a courageous man who also, more importantly, drew out of others the courage they did not know lay within them.
Pell was among the first to identify dubious investments by the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, under the leadership of Cardinal Angelo Becciu at the time.
In his interview with OSV News, Cardinal Pell said Pope Benedict XVI "was one of the finest theologians of the last century” and “the best theologian who was ever the pope.” ...
Cardinal George Pell, a conservative theologian who served as the Vatican finance chief for Pope Francis and who was acquitted after becoming the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of ...
Australian Cardinal George Pell is pictured during the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican in this Oct. 6, 2014, file photo. (CNS/Paul Haring) ...
Australian Cardinal George Pell, a leading Roman Catholic conservative and former top Vatican official who was acquitted in 2020 of sexual abuse accusations, died on Tuesday at the age of 81, his ...
Cardinal Pell, whose child sex abuse convictions were overturned, dies at 81 Even after he was acquitted, Pell’s reputation remained tarnished by the scandal ...
Cardinal George Pell remains a divisive figure even in death, with angry protests at his funeral in Sydney on Thursday and a former prime minister describing him as a “saint.” ...
The funeral Mass of Cardinal George Pell will be held in St. Peter’s Basilica at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 14, the Vatican announced Thursday. Pell, the prefect emeritus of the Secretariat ...
Pell was the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of child sex abuse and spent 404 days in solitary confinement in his native Australia only to have his convictions overturned.
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The sudden death two years ago of Cardinal George Pell, the Australian prelate Pope Francis had enlisted to clean up the Vatican’s finances, left the Catholic conservative ...