« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2017, 01:29:37 pm »
Interesting Breitbart.com take on it:
“It seems as if Cardinal Pell is being singled out to take the rap for the misdeeds of a whole lot of people and the evidence is that he was more active in trying to do something about it,” said former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, referring to Pell’s well-documented efforts to root out sex abuse.
There seems to be a “get Pell” mentality in “some sections of the media,” Howard said.
Pell, who was made a cardinal by Saint John Paul II in 2003 and tapped by Pope Francis to sort out the Vatican banks finances, has been the bane of liberal reformers because of his strong stands on marriage, homosexuality, abortion, bioethics and the environment. His unapologetically traditional views have won him the undying odium and hostility of progressives seeking to bring Catholic teaching into line with modern secularism.
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