UNITED STATES
Catholic League

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in today’s New York Times:

Now it’s the New York Times piling on Cardinal George Pell.

The ostensible target of the Times editorial is Pope Francis, and his alleged “failure” to “address the child abuse scandal” within the Church. But the editors focus on Cardinal Pell, one of the pope’s “closest advisers,” who is returning to Australia to answer charges of abusing minors long ago.

To be sure, the Times editors acknowledge that Cardinal Pell has said “he expected to prove his innocence of the assault charges.” But in the very next sentence, they cite the “cardinal’s deepening involvement”—as though such involvement is already established—as “a severe blow to the Vatican and the pope.”

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UNITED STATES
Catholic League

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in today’s New York Times:

Now it’s the New York Times piling on Cardinal George Pell.

The ostensible target of the Times editorial is Pope Francis, and his alleged “failure” to “address the child abuse scandal” within the Church. But the editors focus on Cardinal Pell, one of the pope’s “closest advisers,” who is returning to Australia to answer charges of abusing minors long ago.

To be sure, the Times editors acknowledge that Cardinal Pell has said “he expected to prove his innocence of the assault charges.” But in the very next sentence, they cite the “cardinal’s deepening involvement”—as though such involvement is already established—as “a severe blow to the Vatican and the pope.”

Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.