A pyrrhic victory if ever there was one! The Pell acquittal exposes a church using all its resources to clear the name of one man while it ducks and weaves to avoid compensating its victims.

Alan B, you cannot call the presumption of innocence a legal technicality. It is the whole basis of our legal system.
Any person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. In the case of Pell there was no evidence to support his guilt apart from the testimony of the victim, but plenty of evidence to make that charge seem impossible.
And this is the first I have heard of the fact that the initial complaint from the mother was not about Pell but about a parish priest at another church altogether. Which makes the whole issue even more unbelievable.

Estelles

Had you watched Andrew Bolt's interview with the Cardinal last night, you would know that the Church contributed NOTHING to his court costs. Costs were borne by himself and rich and not so rich ordinary people who believed in him. You anti-Catholic, anti-justice people are crippled by ignorance. You also missed the Cardinal say that he was ashamed of the Catholic church's response to proven abuses, and it was him who set compensation up well before he was persecuted by the ABC.

There is an interesting article in Quadrant Online today titled "Wilfred Burchett's Heirs and Imitators" that likens contemporary Left journalists, who tried to drag Archbishop Pell down, with the notorious Australian communist and Soviet sympathiser, William Burchett, who helped Stalin's Russia persecute another Cardinal in 40's Poland. Burchett was stripped of his Australian citizenship by the Menzies government, and died unlamented in a down at heel Communist sh.thole in Europe. It's a pity similar arrangements can't be made for Cardinal Pell's pack of media jackals imitating Burchett.

someone against the gw religion, perverting marriage and against women must be guilty. Just ask the Marxist propaganda of the abc, corrupt Victorian Police and a Yr 10 Judicial setup in Victoria. Never mind a man spending 400 days inside for so little evidence.

Legal academics have described the Pell case
as being acquitted on a technicality.

At the other extreme, his supporters suggest the
high court finding means Pell should never have
been prosecuted. This disparity highlights the
role of the legal system. Mr Andrew Bolt along
with many Pell supporters have questioned the role
of our national broadcaster, and the media in
general in this case. News Corp journalists and
commentators along with other supporters have
called the Pell case a "witch-hunt."
And worse.

The following link gives a reasonable explanation
of the disparities involved:

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/apr/15/andrew-bolt-and-the-abc-did-the-reporting-on-george-pell-step-over-a-line

For balance - it's worth watching both the Bolt Report
as well as the ABC's "Revelation," and reading The Guardian.

Personally I found the ABC's TV series "Revelation"
triple times more comPELLing than The Bolt Report.