EDITOR'S NOTE: The High Court overturned Cardinal George Pell's conviction for historical child sex offences in a judgment handed down April 7, 2020. In a unanimous decision all seven High Court judges found Victoria's Court of Appeal should not have upheld Pell's conviction It found the evidence could not support a guilty verdict.

Four days after the formal revelation that Cardinal George Pell has been found guilty of sexually abusing young boys while in his full church regalia, and inside the sacred confines of Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral, Australia has plunged into a national convulsion.