runner,

The Appeal Court will decide the guilt and
innocence of Cardinal Pell. And those of us
who believe in the legal process will accept the
results. It will be in the best interests of
the survivors, of the Cardinal, of the Roman
Catholic Church, and of the wider Australian
Society that this saga is finally laid to
rest.

runner, Got that above in before me.

Juries have come to the wrong verdict on a fare few occasions, some have had people sentenced to death only later to find the person was innocent.

I previously posted about the robes, also in the same article this was stated "“Although the complainant got all sorts of facts wrong, the jury must have believed that Pell did something dreadful to him,” Father Brennan acknowledged in his article.

“The jurors must have judged the complainant to be honest and reliable even though many of the details he gave were improbable if not impossible.”"

** Also the two kids allegedly were in the sacristy where they were swigging sacramental wine. That statement alone has them committing three crimes trespass, theft, and underage drinking. **

The Brennan interview on the 7.30 Report did nothing for Pell's case. Pell chose not to give evidence in his own defence, which was his right. Pell's defence barrister spent a whole day cross examining the accuser, before the jury, obviously unable to break the prosecutions case in their eyes.

Paul,

You inferred that anyone questioning the verdict was an apologist for paedophiles, so yes you were addressing me. The legal process is not complete. Your bile and bravado will change nothing, but it will reflect on you.

“ most people usually
warm to me.” (Foxy).

Now there is a MASSIVE ego.

Moving onto to someone else who would find it hard to buy a hat big enough, but much more interesting, Milo Yiannopoulos believes that the charges against George Pell were so easy to make because there is “almost nothing” the public (and jurors?) won't believe about Catholics and priests in particular. And Milo, having written a book called 'Diabolical: How Pope Francis Has Betrayed Clerical Abuse Victims Like Me – and Why He Has To Go”, knows a thing or two about the matter in hand.

Milo's research revealed to him that there are almost no depths to which the “progressive Catholic hierarchy” will not sink to to damage its political enemies. George Pell was one of those enemies of the “lavender mafia” of powerful “left-wing gay bishops” in Rome. He acknowledges that Pell “championed” the problem of child abuse long before Rome took the problem seriously. He believes that Pell's guilt is 'astonishingly unlikely”, but that juries “don't need much persuasion that Catholic priests are no good”.

Pell was hated by the bishops after he was called in to clear up the “multi-million dollar corruption” in the church. When he was interviewed by Australian police, and after he returned to Australia to defend himself against the sex abuse charges, his financial investigation and reforms stalled, and “sinister forces” controlling the Catholic church “seized the reins again”.

Coincidence? MY claims that there have been warnings from within the Catholic church for years that Cardinal Pell was going to be “stitched up”.

Paul,

As I said earlier, I was molested by a Brother as were others, and we told our fathers who took appropriate action, that was around 1945.