Easter Message from Cardinal Pell After His Imprisonment : We Redeem Our Suffering by Joining it to His

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The flaws, say those on Sky channel, are with the Victorian justice system. The Cardinal only got a fair trial when the issue was taken out of Victoria.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
He will continue to suffer because most of the world thinks he is guilty and will not change their minds.

I am sure he knows that and has accepted his cross.
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I was very surprised to see him back making public statements so soon. I am sure his medical advisors will have suggested he take it easy in the transition to freedom. So he must feel it is urgent for him to resume a pastoral role. While a huge number of people will continue to consider him guilty many others will not. This provides him with a substantial base for whatever he intends.

On the other hand he faces the imminent lifting of suppression orders on some of the evidence and findings of the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Abuse. That will be about his administrative responses to allegations of abuse in other cases. He will have been told of the content of this a long time ago as part of the Commission’s ‘natural justice’ requirements. So his strategy will have taken this into account.

He also faces potential civil action but I imagine he will not be managing his public role with that in mind and he does not seem to be the sort of person to take account of challenges of that sort.
 
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FiveLinden said:
I was very surprised to see him back making public statements so soon.
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He has made one statement and it is exactly what every Catholic would expect him to say - reaffirming his innocence and the importance of joining one’s suffering to Jesus. Furthermore he made the statement during Easter Triduum, which focuses very heavily on Jesus’ suffering. We had a very similar reflection from an anonymous priest who was apparently accused of some crime (unknown what the crime was) and was later exonerated, during the Pope’s Stations of the Cross the other night.

I wouldn’t expect him to be popping off with a statement frequently but this one was both expected and appropriate. I am sure he is following the advice of his legal counsel and I can see where a lawyer would not have much problem with this statement of his.
 
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I don’t think the Cdl will ever be made a Saint but like Mary MacKillop his experience will serve as a shameful blight against a fearless man of God in an anti Catholic environment. His contribution to the Church in Australia is immeasurable despite the institutional failures in responding to the abuse.
 
I don’t know much about this case or the Church in Australia but it seems to me that nobody is willing to change their mind on Pell. Those who defend him - usually staunch Catholics - don’t seem willing to change their hearts or minds if evidence was provided, and those who accuse him - largely “wawa all Catholics are sex abuser” types and leftists - don’t seem to care about a proper trial and genuine justice.

Such is the case with everything in 2020
 
amcintosh said:
Those who defend him - usually staunch Catholics - don’t seem willing to change their hearts or minds if evidence was provided
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I’m a lawyer. If there was reasonable evidence I’d expect it to be presented way earlier in the court proceeding. The evidence is not there.

I’m not somebody who runs around defending every priest and bishop and so forth out there. Many, many, many of them appear to be very guilty and some even admit their guilt. I am a regular reader of bishop-accountability and in a previous phase of my career worked on some child sexual abuse cases and have read about many more, including the things that can go wrong with them and result in injustice in one direction or the other.

Kindly don’t make assumptions about every Catholic who “defends Cardinal Pell”. This isn’t just about Cardinal Pell for me, I do not like it when the justice system convicts someone with insufficient evidence, and I am happy when an appellate court rights the injustice. That is what appellate courts are supposed to do. I worked quite a bit at the appellate level, trying to help do just that.
amcintosh said:
I don’t know much about this case or the Church in Australia
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I would suggest perhaps you learn a bit more about it before commenting on it and especially before making sweeping generalizations as you just did.
 
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Just a note I have mentioned Sky Racing Channel a bit, they also have the Sky news Channel. Both are streamable.

@Emeraldlady will you post a link Tuesday to this?
 
FiveLinden said:
I was very surprised to see him back making public statements so soon
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Why, he is the Cardinal of Australia, and now , as the highest ranked clergy in that country, should have a voice as the Shepherd of the people. It is also heartwarming to read him commenting on the scourge of the ice epidemic in Australia and by default Oceania.
Ice is destroying so many people.

It is the Church who will face the civil action. The father of one of the boys has already started on the civil action and it is against the Church.
 
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Rau,
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I’ve never heard of such a title. I don’t believe he is in a position to exercise any authority over anyone.
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You would agree George Pell is a Cardinal.
You would also agree George Pell is Australian.
You would also agree George Pell is the only Cardinal Australia has.

So what is your issue with the statement

George Pell is the Cardinal of Australia or George Pell is Australia’s Cardinal?
 
Rau said:
As it happens, I believe he not the only living Australian Cardinal.
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The other one is retired, he is emeritus, he was born in 1929.

Edit born 1924
 
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