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January 11, 2023

Cardinal George Pell: 1941-2023

January 11, 2023

With the sudden death of George Pell in Rome the Church has lost a remarkable voice. His last public appearance was as a concelebrant at Pope Benedict’s funeral on 5 January; he died of complications following what should have been a routine operation five days later.

Church in shock after Cardinal Pell dies from heart attack following routine surgery

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

The ordeal of Cardinal Pell: an interview

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