Looking back on Australia’s violent past
David Marr’s new book examines the Native Police’s dispossession of Indigenous Australians, and is surely one of the books of the year.
Cardinal Pell
Unsolicited message led to media star’s live-in nightmare
Storytelling is Jeanne Ryckmans’ life. So, what happens when a professional yarn peddler meets an adept yarn spinner who claims to be close to George Pell and the RBA governor?
Facing a financial crisis, the Vatican can clean up its act
George Pell long predicted the looming issue. Jesus drove the money changers from the temple in Jerusalem, and the Catholic Church needs a similar cleansing.
Pope’s down under snub in new cardinal spree
Six months after the death of Cardinal George Pell, the Pope has snubbed Australia with his appointment of 21 new cardinals to be created on September 30.
Two standards of justice in the Garden State
In Victoria there appears to be a law for Victoria Police and another for people like the late George Pell.
Francis will leave chaos for next pontiff to clear up
As pope, Francis has been unpredictable and confusing but he’s had one fixed star – a dislike for conservatives.
Ex-cardinal ‘unfazed’ at Pell pursuit
A disgraced Catholic cardinal was “detached” when told of allegations that money was sent to Australia to pursue the late George Pell over sexual abuse claims, a Vatican tribunal heard.
School repels bid to restore Pell’s name
George Pell’s alma mater St Patrick’s College is strongly resisting moves by his supporters to restore the Cardinal’s name on its Ballarat campus, splitting the school community.
Pell funeral marks fracture of church and state relations
The Pell legacy will live with the church and our secular institutions for decades to come.
Pell post triggers ‘abuse, vitriol’ against academic
An associate professor warns public debate is being stifled after he was attacked online and cast aside from a victim support service following a social media post about George Pell.
Modern, multicultural church Pell’s revenge
Some of the biggest critics of the conservative cardinal in recent days have been ‘liberal Catholics’ – ageing hippies who still cling to an almost imaginary version of Vatican II.
Last Post: The Cardinal, the Premier and the need for fair play
A state funeral would provide George Pell the decency denied to him in life – due acknowledgment and recognition that he was unfairly imprisoned.
Pell’s rival prays for cardinal at solemn mass
Cardinal George Pell’s foremost adversary Cardinal Angelo Becciu was seen at St Peter’s Basilica as Pope Francis offered a blessing to the 81-year-old prelate at his Requiem Mass.
After rites led by Pope, Pell begins his last journey home
Cardinal George Pell, who delivered a withering criticism of Pope Francis’s leadership, has been blessed during his funeral in the Vatican.
Media pile-on fuelled by flawed commission
It became all but impossible for George Pell to get a fair trial due to media coverage of the royal commission into the institutional response to child sexual abuse.
The love of Christ was the heart of my friend’s life
George Pell was not only the most important Catholic leader Australia has ever produced, he was also one of the most important cardinals from an English-speaking background.
A true giant of the church
Isaac Newton famously said: ‘If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ The Catholic Church bids farewell to one of its giants.
Why Pell’s legacy will cast a long shadow over the Vatican
The Australian cardinal was one of the few in Rome able to reverse the decline of Catholicism. At the next conclave his absence will be felt, but so will his presence, especially through his writings.
Pell’s attackers have always been wide of the mark
The deep antipathy to the late cardinal went further back than the unjust sexual abuse charge and his subsequent imprisonment.
Pell gives Francis’s papacy a kicking
George Pell secretly wrote to cardinals ridiculing Pope Francis’s tenure as a ‘disaster’, claiming the Vatican had lost millions through corruption.
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