Paul Healey
kcarruthersWhat a very fine legacy George Pell leaves behind:
George Pell’s death brought to mind “those hundreds of broken, red-eyed men, who looked older than their years, who clasped my hand and were often unable to speak,” writes
Louise Milligan
The child abuse cases for which George Pell was never tried
The first time I met George Pell, I was a cadet journalist and he was the archbishop of Melbourne. He was dazzling. Even then, Pell had a slightly terrifying reputation. He was loudly opposed to giving communion to gay Catholics and to women in the clergy, and would later declare that abortion was a worse moral crime than paedophilia. His Catholicism was muscular and pugilistic. The motto he chose for his coat of arms was “Be not afraid”.