Pell was acquitted on appeal of child sexual abuse charges, but remained tarnished by his response to paedophile priests over decades
“by 1973 Cardinal Pell was not only conscious of child sexual abuse by clergy but that he also had considered measures of avoiding situations which might provoke gossip about it”.
Throughout his career Pell maintained hardline views on same-sex marriage, homosexuality, abortion, contraception, euthanasia, the climate crisis and women in the clergy,George Pell was born in Ballarat, Victoria, on 8 June 1941, the third of five children of George Arthur Pell and Margaret Lillian . He had a younger sister, Margaret, and brother, David, and twin older siblings who died as infants.
He said the discipline he imposed on himself “not to lapse in that way” helped to explain his often wooden responses under questioning at the royal commission much later in life. He set his sights high early in his clerical career, according to former fellow seminarians at Corpus Christi College in Werribee, Victoria. His classmates described him as “thriving” in the seminary’s exacting, austere environment, where becoming head prefect marked the first step in his ascent.
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