Tag: Cardinal Pell

Book review: Cardinal Pell, the media pile-on and collective guilt by Gerard Henderson By John S Webster A standard text in various school curricula is Reginald...

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the third volume of his prison diaries, Cardinal Pell reveals the insights he gained into suffering Cardinal George Pell, jailed for more than a year for sex abuse crimes he ultimately was cleared of, said the experience enabled him to understand suffering as a redemptive process that allows one to identify […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesFormer Prime Minister John Howard has written he “never believed” the charges against Cardinal Pell in the foreword to a new book by Sydney Institute Executive Director Gerard Henderson. The book, Cardinal Pell, the Media Pile-on and Collective Guilt, forensically dissects and analyses the near-universal hostile reporting of the case by media […]

Reading Time: 8 minutesGerard Henderson’s book analysing the influences at work in Cardinal Pell’s prosecution will be published in December. Here are some excerpts Paul Barry’s ABC Media Watch Cop-Out ABC TV’s Media Watch program commenced in 1989. Since then, all its presenters have been left-of-centre journalists, including such Pell-antagonists as David Marr and Richard […]

Increasingly bitter polarisation is a problem, said Cardinal Pell in a recent interview.

A case that should never have happened It’s time to declare that George Pell is innocent of the preposterous charges he faced in the County...

The American academic and author Camille Paglia in her book Free Women Free Men published in 2017 provides a scathing condemnation of “the plague...

Mystery remains over some Vatican funds, says senator, while investigations continue.

Within the ideological imperatives that prevail today, any one of us could become a George Pell

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