No, but he is human.
Supporting Trump's wall is a sin
Australian here, it's a stitch up, there's a single accuser, the other deceased accuser made no claims, his family are, and this is after the fact that police offered a reward for anyone to come forward and accuse Pell specifically. It really sums up the whole circus down here when there's was clearly a gay man chanting at him to "go to hell" as he was led to his car.
Perhaps I've been deceived then, this is something I could see some bad actors doing.
Homosexuals and their allies have been after him for years because he's highly conservative. There's no way in Hell he got a far trial in Victoria either, 20% Atheist and though people put Christian on the census, none of them go to Church. Even our "Republicans" let through Homo marriage and stopped funding religious schools last year. The Church is under siege in this country.
You would probably abandon your mother if she got a tumor as well, coward.
Different Australian here. Ozanon aint wrong. Pell may well poetry! be guilty of hiding pedo-priests, but that's not what he was on trial for … and yet I think it was. I think the jury wanted to punish him for everything the cathbro church has done in this state. ONE person accused him. The co-accuser denied the whole thing until his death, so the whole thing rests on the testimony of ONE person, even though there is circumstantial evidence to refute it.
Would not at all be surprised if Pell was released on appeal. But, if he is, there will be church-burnings, mark my words (not that there hasn't already been).
The shrill anti-church rhetoric in this state is pretty fierce.
The abused were out for blood because the priest diddled them and then the church diddled them out of the hundreds of thousands of dollars I think some of them now think they deserve. (Or their lawyers do.)
The media were out for blood because they couldn't report on Pell's conviction for three months.
The populace is out for blood because he represents the church and all the abusers.
And liberal catholics are out for blood because Pell's a conservative, and that's apparently bad.
I mean, I am all for stringing up the abusers, all for making the church pay what it owes for keeping all this hidden for decades, but I cannot see ONE MAN being made the carry the can for all this as being anything like justice. It just SO looks like Christ being lead to the cross, tbqhwy Zig Forums
And as a prot' I never thought I'd write those words about a cathbro'
MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY OF THIS…
the country's media are allowing themselves to get carried away by the whole torches-n-pitchforks parade that they're failing to see the bigger picture:
FIRST RULE IN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IS … ?
follow the money
And what was #3-man-in-the-church's-hierarchy's job in the Vatican … something to do with the Vatican bank or something …? Gee, what a coincidence. How is no one looking into this angle? They're too busy stringing-up a proxy for all the dead pedopriests.
Enough to make you sigh.