A magistrate in Australia has ruled that Cardinal Pell should stand on trial for some of the sex charges (but not others) that are laid against him.
30 witnesses came forward to testify against the Cardinal but he still insisted that he was ‘not guilty’ in his plea to all the charges. Time and the proceedings in court will tell if not the whole, at least a large part of the story of Australia’s most influential Catholic and the Vatican’s third most powerful bureaucrat. Guilty or not, his past will be laid out in public for all to know. Australia and the world will keenly follow the legal proceedings, the verdict and if found guilty, the punishment. Roland Francis Toronto.
