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Third Most Powerful Man in the Vatican Convicted Sexual Abuse of a Child

26-2-2019 < Blacklisted News 30 173 words
 

Year after year.
Decade after decade.
Century after century.
Countless atrocities piled upon countless atrocities.


Maybe a re-brand is necessary.


How about: The Catholic Church of Satan?


Via: Guardian:


Cardinal George Pell, once the third most powerful man in the Vatican and Australia’s most senior Catholic, has been found guilty of child sexual abuse after a trial in Melbourne.


A jury delivered the unanimous verdict on 11 December in Melbourne’s county court, but the result was subject to a suppression order and could not be reported until now.


A previous trial on the same five charges, which began in August, resulted in a hung jury, leading to a retrial.


Pell, who is on leave from his role in Rome as Vatican treasurer, was found guilty of sexually penetrating a child under the age of 16 as well as four charges of an indecent act with a child under the age of 16. The offences occurred in December 1996 and early 1997 at St Patrick’s Cathedral, months after Pell was inaugurated as archbishop of Melbourne.


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