Catholic Diocese Admits Liability in Sex Assaults

By Keith Fraser
Vancouver Sun
October 10, 2019

https://www.timescolonist.com/news/b-c/catholic-diocese-admits-liability-in-sex-assaults-1.23972944

Just hours before the Amazon Synod will start, in what amounts to a Declaration of War against Pope Francis, Cardinal Muller has released two films on YouTube based on his written Manifesto of Faith.

Cardinal George Pell’s malevolent crusade against Pope Francis remains as vigorous as his disdain and notorious self-professed disinterest for victims of child sex abuse.

In shocking and curious timing on 1 August, Cardinal George Pell’s supporters published a seemingly innocuous two-page letter the convicted paedophile had apparently penned and sent whilst in prison, on their Twitter account.

That letter was deleted and now the Twitter account "Cardinal George Pell Supporters" @PellCardinal has gone to god.

But the sentence below is what grabbed the media’s attention. It was vintage, self-aggrandising Pell, invoking the name of Jesus, hauling the Messiah into Pell’s messianic and squalid orbit.

As usual with Pell, it was all about him:

'The knowledge that my small suffering can be used for good purposes through being joined to Jesus’ suffering gives me purpose and direction.'

Just how can Cardinal George Pell’s “small suffering” be used for “good purposes” is anyone’s guess. And in what way is Pell joined to Jesus’ suffering? Jesus was neither charged nor convicted of paedophilia.

I dare not cast the first stone for obvious reasons, but surely Pell might better compare his suffering with some of the millions of victims of global clergy sex abuse, including his own victims — perhaps even pray for the soul of his victim, who died as a result of a heroin overdose.