Further to my post yesterday about Australia's Cardinal Pell being charged with historical child sex offences, (https://steemit.com/religion/@aussiefester/let-s-see-the-true-colour-of-the-catholic-church-s-cards)
this appeared today.
THE photograph was striking: There was George Pell, then an auxiliary bishop, walking side-by-side into court with Gerald Ridsdale, the man later found to be Australia’s worst paedophile priest.
The decision by Cardinal Pell, now a Vatican cardinal, to support his former housemate that day in 1993 led to an image that has lived on in infamy in Australia for more than two decades, creating an image of a man who appeared to be more concerned with protecting the church than its flock.
The pigeons are on the way home to roost it appears