Australian Cardinal George Pell is dead
According to the Italian news agency, Pell died due to complications following hip surgery at a hospital in Rome. The Australian cardinal was head of the Vatican Economic Secretariat from 2014 to 2017 before facing charges of abuse in his native Australia.
Convicted of child abuse
In 2018, a Melbourne criminal court sentenced him to several years in prison on charges of sexually assaulting two choirboys during his time as Archbishop of Melbourne in the 1990s. He was the highest-ranking Catholic minister convicted of child molestation. In 2020, he was finally acquitted due to lack of evidence and released from prison.
Return to the Vatican
After his acquittal in 2020, Pell returned to the Vatican. Most recently, he attended the funeral of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI last week. performed in public.
Pell’s efforts to make the Vatican’s finances more transparent and clean brought him into repeated conflict with the old structures and customs of those in charge at the Vatican during his tenure as the Vatican’s “Secretary of Finance”. One of them is Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who is now on trial in a Vatican court for breach of trust and embezzlement.
Source: Krone
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