SYDNEY – In death as in life, Cardinal George Pell split opinion in Australia: While believers on Wednesday mourned the passing of a “great churchman”, sexual abuse survivors said they would shed no tears.
“It was very sad personal news to hear and quite a shock,” said Archbishop of Melbourne Peter Comensoli. “I am a sinner, all of us sinners, and all of us in that sense have failed in different ways,” Archbishop Comensoli added. In 2019, Cardinal Pell was sentenced to six years in prison and registered as a sex offender. He spent 12 months in Barwon Prison near Melbourne before the Australian High Court quashed his convictions on appeal, opening the door for his return to Rome in late 2020.
“An outpouring of love for a man who at the very least turned a blind eye to massive child abuse, dreamt up a legal scheme which ripped off abuse survivors and personally seemed incapable of empathy with victims.”Mr Donald McLeish, from the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said Cardinal Pell embodied the church’s neglect of sexual abuse victims.
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