Cardinal George Pell has died in Rome after complications from a hip replacement. Read more:
Cardinal Pell, the former Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, died on Tuesday evening, AAP has confirmed.
He was the Vatican's top finance minister before he left in 2017 to stand trial in Australia for child abuse offences. Cardinal Pell was convicted in 2018 of molesting two teenage choirboys in the sacristy at St Patrick's Cathedral while he was Archbishop of Melbourne in 1996. He always maintained his innocence and his convictions were quashed in a unanimous decision by the High Court in 2020.
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