George Pell told a Vatican Tribunal that Cardinal Angelo Becciu sent him a message to say that $2.3m sent from the Holy See to Australia was “none of my business but was known to the Holy Father”.
Angelo Becciu, convicted of embezzlement, fraud and abuse of office, claims George Pell personally authorised the transfer of $2.3m to Australia during his trial on historical abuse.
Bishop Bychok’s experience in four countries will serve him well.
A new book by one of Italy’s most respected Vatican journalists includes revelations about the late Cardinal Pell and the power battles that stymied efforts to reform the Holy See’s finances.
Extraordinary new revelations show how George Pell helped quietly claim another scalp in the Vatican corruption scandal.
There have been so many scandals involving the Vatican of late that a lot of people are confused about all this and whatever link there is to George Pell’s persecution.
George Pell’s family has no complaints about his medical treatment in Rome’s Salvator Mundi Hospital and the autopsy report of his death.
Libero Milone, the only man left alive of the high-powered trio who launched Pope Francis’s reforms of the Holy See’s corrupt financial systems, reveals he made a heartfelt vow to George Pell while paying final respects at his coffin in Rome.
One of the nation’s top legal minds, who previously represented George Pell, will run Patrick Stephenson’s defence.
The late George Pell described James Power’s university as ‘a bright example of political incorrectness … dedicated to the study of Western Civilisation’.
Before either the ailing Pope or your columnist dies, it seems timely to return to a lifelong interest of mine.
Following the Lawyer X and George Pell debacles, many in the legal fraternity have completely lost faith in Victoria’s criminal justice system.
George Pell left hundreds of thousands dollars in cash and shares in a will signed two months after it emerged he was under police investigation for child sexual abuse.
Peter Kidd, who assumed national prominence when he presided over George Pell’s sexual assault trial, has become a victim of street crime after thieves stole his taxpayer-funded car.
Libero Milone, who investigated financial irregularities with George Pell, has lost his unfair dismissal case.
Australia’s leading Catholic cleric has declared that the late cardinal George Pell’s wrongful conviction and imprisonment was a result of ‘the corrupt Victorian legal system’.
Britain’s Daily Telegraph has a different story, revealing: ‘How a Scot became Queen of Denmark’.
From George Pell to #MeToo, the seeds were sown of a harvest of activist outrage that swept through 2023.
George Pell believed the Vatican was being robbed blind and that he was the target of corrupt forces. Did Angelo Becciu adversely influence the trial of his nemesis?
The guilty verdict of Cardinal Angelo Becciu in a Vatican City courtroom came on an auspicious day – the 57th anniversary of the ordination of George Pell to the priesthood in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
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