AUSTRALIA
PerthNow
AMY MARTIN
Entertainment Reporter
PerthNow
PERTH comedian-musician Tim Minchin’s latest song has taken aim at Cardinal George Pell, calling him a “pompous buffoon”, “a coward” and “scum”.
Come Home (Cardinal Pell) first aired on Channel 10’s The Project on Tuesday night and caused a swell of support on social media, despite outrage from the show’s co-host Steve Price.
Currently working in the Vatican, Cardinal Pell — the highest-ranking cleric in the Australian Catholic Church — was asked to return to Australia by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in the 1970s and 1980s.
The cardinal replied with a doctor’s certificate that said he was too unwell to fly back to Australia to give evidence on the case.
An arrangement has been made for him to give evidence via video link to the Royal Commission.
This prompted Minchin to write the musical attack, which went as far to say that if moral duty hadn’t compelled Cardinal Pell to return to Australia, then the opportunity to sue the singer for his song might.
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