"I'll (ttbn) get in early and say that he (Francis) is the worst Pope ever" What an ignorant statement from a bloke with zero knowledge of the over 260 Popes since Peter. Pray tell what is your opinion of Pope Linus? I can see saying, WHOSE this Linus bloke, never heard of him! Oh yeah, I know says ttbn, Charlie Brown's best mate.

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A couple of things I should rectify …

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I mistakenly indicated in my previous post that the choirboy, A, was 15 years old at the time of the alleged crimes. In fact, both he and the other choirboy, B, were only 13 years old.

I also mistakenly indicated that A accused Pell of sexual penetration in 2018. In fact, A made his first complaint about the alleged assaults in June 2015, i.e., when he was 32 years old – 19 years after the alleged assaults.
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Choirboy B died in 2014 aged 31 from a drug overdose.

That raises a couple of questions :

1. Was B’s drug addiction due to the purported sexual assaults ?

2. Did B’s death trigger A’s decision to report the purported sexual assaults to the police ? If not, what did trigger his decision ?

The father of the deceased choirboy B had instigated legal proceedings in the civil court against Pell and the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, separately, prior to Pell’s death.

Shine Lawyers’ chief legal officer, Lisa Flynn, acting on behalf of choirboy B’s father (referred to in court as RWQ) has indicated that the civil claim would continue despite Pell’s death.

The civil trial would have provided the only opportunity to cross-examine Pell, and truly test his defence against the allegations – despite the High Court’s ruling of acquittal in the criminal case during which Pell never uttered a single word, remaining silent throughout the trial, retrial, appeal to the Supreme Court of Victoria and subsequent appeal to the High Court of Australia.

Pell died in Rome at age 81 while undergoing hip surgery. According to the Vatican, he had been suffering from heart problems for some time and had been implanted with a pacemaker since 2010.

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I wonder if Ridsdale was a member of the Greens and mates with Doig.

He certainly had the attributes

No SM,

But if you want to play dirty, The Liberal Party supplied Australia with it one and only, as far as I know, PAEDOPHILE PRIME MINISTER, yes he did like the young boys, I think you know who I am referring to, he is now long dead.

Dear Banjo Paterson,

«during which Pell never uttered a single word, remaining silent throughout the trial»

Likely because he wanted to protect the other clergymen who were with him in the room, whose identity he now successfully took to his grave. All evidence shows that he could not have possibly been there alone with the children.

That needs to be corrected.

Actually at that time St Patrick's Cathedral was
under going renovations - and there was great
disorder in the private areas of the cathedral.
Pell's personal assistant went outside for a smoke -
To which he later testified. There was confusion all
round at the time. And the incident with the two boys
was very believable. As was shown by the jury, the
court of appeal majority judges, the court of public
opinion - et cetera.