Sydney, Australia, Feb 22 (EFE).- Australian authorities have arrested and charged a retired bishop with 19 child sex abuse offenses between 2008 and 2020. Christopher Saunders, who resigned from his position in 2020, when the allegations first came to light, was arrested on Wednesday at his home in the city of Broome, in the northwest …
An Australian state leader on Thursday emphatically ruled out a taxpayer-funded memorial for Cardinal George Pell, saying it would be "deeply distressing" for sexual abuse survivors.
Pell climbed the ranks to become one of Pope Francis's most trusted advisers inside the Vatican. He was also the highest-ranking Catholic to be imprisoned for child sexual abuse, before his convictions were quashed on appeal.
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.
Cardinal George Pell, a giant of the Catholic Church who was convicted and later cleared of sexual abuse in Australia, has died in Rome aged 81, a church o..