![]() Sensationally, in April 2020, all seven judges of the High Court of Australia quashed Pell’s conviction. The trial, retrial, and conviction in December 2018 of Cardinal Pell for historical child sexual abuse of two choirboys at Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral that allegedly occurred in the mid-1990s, gained international attention. Some people were convinced of his innocence, but many others wanted him to be guilty. The case of George Pell revealed deep fault lines in Australian society. Ross Fitzgerald, The Australian, 8 December 2021 ***** Cardinal George Pell: a man of sorrows Is it delusion or is it pure malice? Is she mad or bad? Gerard Henderson’s highly recommended book provides evidence for one or the other – or perhaps both. ![]() ![]() Indeed, I have described Milligan as delusional, but I wonder. You only have to follow Louise Milligan’s twitter account to witness the mob’s delusion and unrestrained hatred of Cardinal Pell. It does not matter what has been said, how detailed and coherent the analysis of the ‘choirboy’s’ absurd story, the 7-0 verdict of the High Court, and the international consternation at the failure of Australia’s legal system, they remain impervious. ![]() ![]() The main point that emerges from Ross Fitzgerald’s review of Gerard Henderson’s book, Cardinal Pell, the Media Pile-on and Collective Guilt, is that the cardinal’s antagonists remain immovable in their belief that he is guilty as charged. ![]()
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