Cardinal George Pell

• Australian court dismisses former Vatican minister’s child sex abuse convictions

  Pope Francis' former finance minister was convicted by a Victoria state jury in 2018 of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys in December 1996 while he was archbishop of Australia's second-largest city.

  World

  Apr 6, 2020
  
• Ex-Vatican treasurer to stay in prison after appeal of choir boy sex abuse conviction

  Cardinal George Pell lost an appeal against his conviction for sexually abusing two 13-year-old choir boys.

  World

  Aug 21, 2019
  
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• Ex-Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell gets 6 years in jail for sexually abusing choir boys

  Pell, 77, is the highest ranking Catholic priest worldwide to be convicted for child sex offenses.

  Crime

  Mar 12, 2019
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• Australian cardinal to stand trial on historical sex abuse charges

  Australian Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, on Tuesday officially denied charges of sexual abuse spanning decades after his lawyers failed to sway a court to dismiss them.

  Crime

  May 1, 2018
• Pope Francis’ top aid George Pell charged in sexual assault case in Australia

  Two men, now in their 40s, have said that Pell touched them inappropriately at a swimming pool in the late 1970s

  News

  Jun 30, 2017
• Vatican cardinal George Pell faces multiple sexual assault charges

  Australian police charged a top Vatican cardinal on Thursday with multiple counts of historical sexual assault offences.

  Crime

  Jun 28, 2017
• Cardinal denies concealing knowledge of 2 Aussie pedophiles

  One of Pope Francis' top advisers denied accusations that he had concealed his own knowledge of two notorious pedophile priests.

  World

  Mar 1, 2016
• Australian sex abuse victims await cardinal’s testimony

  Australians who were raped and molested by Catholic priests when they were children are hoping to learn the truth about what a top Vatican cardinal knew about their attackers when he testifies Sunday night.

  World

  Feb 28, 2016