A father is suing for damages for the nervous shock he suffered when he learned of allegations his son had been abused.
Rod McGuirk - Associated Press
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Police ask court to ban gay-rights protest at Cardinal Pell’s Sydney funeral
The New South Wales Police Force said on Tuesday it has rejected an application from a Sydney-based gay rights group for a permit to protest outside the cathedral on Thursday due to safety concerns.
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Report: Cardinal Pell is returning to Rome
Pell’s return follows Francis last week firing one of the cardinal’s most powerful opponents, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, over a financial scandal.
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Inquiry: Pell knew of abuse by Australian pedophile priest
Cardinal Pell was formerly Pope Francis’ finance minister and at one time the third-highest ranking cleric in the Vatican.
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Australia’s highest court to judge Cardinal Pell’s abuse appeal
Australia’s highest court on Tuesday will judge Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against convictions for molesting two teenage choirboys more than two decades ago.
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Australia’s highest court agrees to hear Cardinal Pell’s appeal in sex abuse case
The decision by the High Court of Australia comes nearly a year after a unanimous jury found Pope Francis’ former finance minister guilty of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the late 1990s.
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Cardinal George Pell’s appeal verdict is coming—but it still might not be the final word.
Cardinal Pell would walk free if the three judges acquit him of the five convictions.
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Australian Cardinal Pell appeals child sex abuse convictions
Cardinal George Pell’s lawyers argued for more than five hours that the five verdicts against Pell were “unsafe and unsatisfactory” and should be overturned.
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Cardinal Pell set to appeal child sex convictions
The most senior Catholic found guilty of child sex abuse will ask an Australian appeals court on Wednesday to reverse convictions on charges of molesting two choirboys in a cathedral more than 20 years ago as hundreds of worshippers streamed from Masses.
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Australian reporters charged over Pell gag order violations
Reporting in any format accessible from Australia about the former Vatican economy chief’s convictions in a Melbourne court in December was banned by a judge’s suppression order that was only lifted in February.