Apology! Sorry, Big Nana, My remarks should have been directed exclusively at runner, I apologise and withdraw unreservedly!
Alan B.

Cardinal Pell has been sentenced to six years in jail
with a non-parole period of 3 years, 8 months.
He is now also listed as a registered pedophile.

He's gone through our legal process and has been
found guilty.

People may continue to argue one way or the other for
years. It won't change anything. Has justice been
served? That's up to whether you believe in our
legal process and jury system or not. The law has been
served.

We can now await the Appeal to be heard in June.

Dear Nana,

“Firstly, whether or not Pell had sex with trainee priests is nobodies business. Trainee priests are not children. Last time I looked, sex between consenting adults was legal.”

Agree with the second part of your premise not the first.

Pell was more than vigorous in attacking homosexual relationships, particularly in mainstream media. This either speaks to his hypocrisy and therefore his credibility or his propensity to abuse a position of power. Both reflect on the believably of the statements of denial he made during his police interview.

I would really hate to think any innocent person should be found guilty of a crime he or she did not commit. However I am not happy that the abuse that Pell enabled by protecting and moving offending priest to another unsuspecting school or parish was allowed to harm innumerable numbers of Aussie kids.

For that he deserved 20 years at least but he will never be held to account for those crimes.

Dear Alan B,

I am struggling to find 'pussy head' in the Christian lexicon. Are you able to assist?

It is not satisfactory to jail someone on twentytwo year old (1996-2018) uncorroborated evidence.

I note our ABC is getting a bit weepy about the sentence ie justice at last. Looks like Pell has taken a hit for the lot. Some of us have had plenty of crook situations but get over it.

Hopefully His Most Reverend Eminence Cardinal Pell's [1] fellow inmates won't give him too hard a time

during his 6 year stretch.

All this prison time will give Pell time to minister to his Prison Flock.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Eminence#Catholicism

Dear Steele,

Cardinal Pell built his career preaching the sex
rules of his faith. His intransigence made him a
celebrity. Demanding obedience, listing sins,
condemning sinners kept him in the news. He was
always pouring his energies into combating
contraception, equal marriage, but particularly
homosexuality. He was particularly brutal to
homosexuals. He refused to give them communion.
When a wreath was laid outside St Patrick's
Cathedral in Melbourne in memory of gay students in
Catholic Schools driven to suicide - his disdain was
absolute.

He kept things simple and brutal.

His proclamation that "No sex is sacred,"
greatly impressed John Paul II and Benedict XVI immensely.
Not so much Pope Francis who took the view -
"Behind rigidity something always lies hidden. In many
cases a double life."

The world now knows that a little over 20 years in
Pell's first months as archbishop of Melbourne
this scourge of sex was forcing choirboys to suck his penis.