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Date: December 12, 2018 07:27PM
Australian court convicts Cardinal George Pell on child sex abuse charges, making him the highest-ranking cleric...
https://wapo.st/2zVbvlhPell has been convicted in Australia on charges related to sexual abuse, according to two sources familiar with the case and other media reports, becoming the most prominent Vatican official to face such a punishment.
The conviction provides one of the clearest examples to date of how the sexual abuse scandal has eroded the church’s credibility while ensnaring figures in the upper echelons of power. Pell, who has declared his innocence, had taken a leave of absence from the Vatican’s third-most-powerful position, as the economy minister, to fight the charges.