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January 18, 2023
The week of prayer for Christian unity can be, for many, one of the most depressing weeks of the year; so much aspiration deflated by so little achieved. Yet the Christian journey and the life of the Church are made up of such paradoxes, some of which verge on outright contradiction.  How is it that
January 12, 2023
“What weight do we give to the teaching of Jesus Christ and the Apostles?” In the second episode of our Merely Catholic podcast series Dr Gavin Ashenden spoke to the late Cardinal George Pell about dangers inherent in conforming to contemporary fads and ideologies. Bishops presiding over the German Synodal Path would be embarking on
January 11, 2023
Cardinal George Pell has died from a heart attack in Rome following complications after a hip operation. The former Archbishop of Melbourne and of Sydney and Prefect Emeritus of the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy died unexpectedly at 8.50pm as he was recuperating from surgery. Until that point, the operation was understood to have been
January 11, 2023
This article originally appeared in the December 2021 issue of the Catholic Herald.  Within a few minutes of meeting Cardinal Pell at the Travellers Club in Pall Mall, he makes a revealing comment about the proposed title of his upcoming Thomas More lecture in Oxford – the reason he was in England for a week in
August 04, 2021
Melanie McDonagh on how the Vatican Trial of the century highlights the injustice to Cardinal Pell
February 01, 2021
Australian prosecutors announced on Monday that they were dropping charges against individual journalists accused of breaching a gag order over the trial of Cardinal George Pell.
December 04, 2020
George Cardinal Pell delivered remarks via video link to participants in the Global Foundation’s Rome Roundtable, which took place November 16th-17th.
February 16, 2020
Australia’s High Court has set a date for the final appeal of Cardinal George Pell, who was convicted in 2018 on five charges of child sexual abuse. The cardinal’s final appeal in the Australian judiciary will be heard March 11 and 12 by the High Court, according to Australian media reports. Pell lost an initial
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