AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Patrick Carlyon, Herald Sun
July 26, 2017
THE word had been that Cardinal George Pell would be afforded no special favours at court on Wednesday.
Yet he wasn’t like everyone else. The journalists camped out in the pre-dawn inkiness, before the tinkle of the first tram, told you as much.
The cardinal arrived at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court a tick before 9am, to be confronted, as all are, by security scanners. But his presence did not set off beeps and whines, as everyone else’s seems to.
By the time he had passed, after a wave of the electronic wand, everyone was looking at the stooped man in the black suit and coat.
Conversations had stopped mid-sentence, though Pell hardly played to the attention. His was a balding head in a wash of hi-vis security.
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