Reflections on Cardinal Pell.








Maybe Pilate was using "King of the Jews" in an offensive, pejorative sense - king of the shysters, the usurers, the con men.

The Roman Catholic Church certainly seems to have taken on board this contemptuous description enthusiastically, as evidenced by the obscene wealth and opulence of the church, their introspective interpretation of the gospel based on the good of the church rather than the good of humanity and their obsessive focus on matters sexual - their interpretation of which apparently defines abstinence as applying only to sex with adult females.  


As Cardinal Pell explained to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, when asked why he took no action over complaints about sexual abuse of children by priests in his parish: "It wasn't of much interest to me.




(His ArseHoliness Pell obviously has no intellectual commitment to the doctrines of his employer, otherwise he would be paralysed by fear at the fate that surely awaits him in the special place reserved for him in hell.)








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Ben Clibrig said…
Post Script: Cardinal Pell was charged in June 2017 with historical sex offence charges in relation to multiple complainants. He will face a four-week committal hearing next March.
Ben Clibrig said…
See:
Come Home (Cardinal Pell) - Tim Minchin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtHOmforqxk

Ben Clibrig said…
Headlines 2 Feb 2018: "Sex offence charge against George Pell is dropped" - The Australian.

Sounds like it's all over, doesn't it, just three days before Cardinal George Pell is to appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court for a committal hearing on multiple sexual abuse charges.

But in the body of the report, it becomes apparent that prosecutors have only withdrawn one charge, and have done so because the accuser has died.
The charges related to "multiple complainants" still stand.