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George Pell shows: hard cases make bad law

27 August 2019

7:00 PM

27 August 2019

7:00 PM

It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there…

Bob Dylan

The decision last week of the Victorian Court to reject the appeal against the conviction of Cardinal Pell for child abuse will be a source of distress to many Catholic Christians.

I have read Louise Milligan’s book Cardinal: the Rise and Fall of George Pell.

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