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Guest notes

Catholic notes

9 March 2019

9:00 AM

9 March 2019

9:00 AM

My personal thoughts on Cardinal Pell’s conviction

From what I can tell, this is the crime for which George Cardinal Pell was convicted: in the mid-1990s, two choir boys (nicknamed ‘the Choirboy’ and ‘the Kid’ by the media) somehow broke into the Cardinal’s locked sacristy immediately after a Sunday Mass, looking for a tipple of Communion wine.

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