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Australian bishops react to news of passing of former Prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy

Cardinal George Pell is dead, and we are not in mourning.

Pope Francis tapped him in 2014 to reform the Vatican's notoriously opaque finances. Even after the court cleared him, Pell's reputation remained tarnished.a

The Victorian premier has ruled out hosting a state funeral or service for the late Cardinal George Pell, saying it would distress survivors of abuse.

Cardinal was acquitted on appeal of child sexual abuse charges but remained tarnished by his response to paedophile priests over decades

When a jury foreman announced a guilty verdict against Australia’s most senior Catholic cleric, there were only two audible sounds in the previously bustling courtroom.

Cardinal George Pell, a onetime financial adviser to Pope Francis who had sex abuse convictions overturned, has died

Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic cleric Cardinal George Pell died in Rome on Tuesday, following complications that occurred hip surgery.

To his supporters, the cardinal was at the heart of the struggle for the soul of the church in a secular world. To his enemies, he was a dogmatic and abrasive bully who surrounded himself with yes-men.

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