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WHAT BUGGED A PRIEST ABOUT HIS PRIVATE CALL TO PELL

Did police poison the public against Cardinal George Pell — including by leaking to the media details of a private phone call? Monsignor Charles Portelli was amazed last February to read on The New Daily website a story by Lucie Morris-Marr, reporting details from a private phone call between Portelli and an allegedly "tearful" Pell. 

George Pell leaving the County Court in Melbourne today. Picture: AAP
George Pell leaving the County Court in Melbourne today. Picture: AAP

Did police poison the public against Cardinal George Pell — including by leaking to the media details of a private phone call?

Monsignor Charles Portelli was amazed last February to read on The New Daily website a story by Lucie Morris-Marr, who’d earlier broken the story that police were investigating Pell over alleged sexual abuse.

This time, Morris-Marr had a scoop that to some readers may have implied Pell had a guilty conscience.

She wrote that Pell tearily apologised to Portelli on the day a jury declared the cardinal guilty of sexually assaulting two choirboys in the sacristy right after Mass.

(Read the full column here.)

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