Cardinal George Pell, a powerful but divisive figure within the Catholic Church whose child sex abuse convictions were overturned, has died at 81.
Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the highest form of inquiry in the country, also found that he knew of clergy molesting children in the 1970s and did not take adequate action to address it.
Only in the last year, nearly a decade after Pell first announced that he had uncovered nearly 1 billion euros in unreported assets, has Francis ordered the secretariat of state's entire financial portfolio moved into the Vatican's centralized patrimony office for more professional management and accounting.After Pell returned to Rome following his release from prison in 2020, he had a well-publicized private audience with Francis.
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Australian Cardinal George Pell, acquitted of child sex abuse, dead at 81Australian Cardinal George Pell, a leading Roman Catholic conservative and former top Vatican official who in 2020 was acquitted of sexual abuse allegations, died on Tuesday at the age of 81, his private secretary said.
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Cardinal George Pell, convicted then acquitted of child sex abuse, dies at 81The sexual assault conviction of the Australian cleric, who was a top adviser to Pope Francis, was overturned after he spent more than a year in prison.
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