Do the doubters also doubt every claim of sexual assault made against this Churches servants over the past one hundred plus years
Are all judgments handed down subject to review
In the end my childhood of hearing, but not believing this Church is the anti Christ may need another look

Foxy

just out of interest, will you be tearing up your membership of the Catholic church?

runner,

You asked me - will I be tearing up my membership
of the Catholic Church?

No I won't. The Vatican has revealed it will wait
until Pell has exhausted every avenue for appeal.
It is Pell's right to appeal to the High Court.
The Church said that it will accept the Court's
final decision and turn its attention to the victims
and the poor.

Should pope what's his name, cark it today Paedophile Pell has the right to vote for a new Big P.

We need to make a note that our criminal process
has afforded Pell every opportunity to challenge
the charges and every opportunity to be heard.

Pell has had the best legal representation that
money can buy. There are lots of checks and
balances in the criminal justice system and
Pell has used and is using them all.

This is the ultimate David and Goliath tale of a
young man who never sought fame or compensation.
He just wanted justice against a well-resourced
defendant who has for years cultivated and been
supported by a powerful image.

Taking on Cardinal Pell, the 3rd most senior person
in the worldwide Catholic Church is a very brave act.
The young man only did it after his friend committed
suicide.

Here we have a powerful cardinal - a man supported by
two former PMs who did not spend a minute in court,
did not hear or read a word of the evidence and yet
nonetheless by implication they branded the young
man a liar.

The trauma and anxiety for all involved, for the young
man, for the family of his dead friend, for the entire
community of people who have survived industiral-scale
abuse by the Catholic clergy in this country - cannot be
underestimated.

This Church has been up to its neck in politics always
EG Diplomatic Labor Party, Abbott's love of it started there
And it is now, based on world wide reports, the property of the far right here and in America at least
Pell taints the Church, his supporters should ask the most important question
What would Christ make of him