Jean Vanier had until now been seen as "a living saint in our time."

That's what stands out for me as I read about hin in light of news about the funeral Cardinal George Pell, who was acclaimed by Tony Abbott as "a saint for our times." Abbott is echoing what a number of pieces of commentary in the mainstream media have also said about Pell after he died.

What does sainthood mean any longer in the Catholic tradition?

#JeanVanier #CardinalPell #Catholic

http://bilgrimage.blogspot.com/2023/02/report-on-jean-vanier-vanier-founded.html#more

While former Australian PM Tony Abbot, who is spending his retirement advocating for right-wing causes and who is Catholic, acclaims Cardinal Pell as "a saint for our times" at Pell's funerals, outside the cathedral, survivors of clerical sexual abuse and LGBTQ people decry Pell's complicity in covering up sexual abuse of minors by priests and his ugly homophobia.

#CardinalPell #SexualAbuse #Catholic #homophobia #TonyAbbott

http://bilgrimage.blogspot.com/2023/02/as-cardinal-pell-is-buried-hes.html

Ben Doherty reports,

"At the conclusion of the three-hour [Pell funeral] mass, 275 priests and 75 seminarians led the processional out on to the contested ground of College Street."

Thise 275 priests and 75 seminarians were all men, almost all of them white men. For whose interests did Pell stand, one has to ask? as one weighs the symbolism here.

#CardinalPell #Catholic #SexualAbuse

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/02/cardinal-george-pell-funeral-sydney-australia

Ben Doherty reports,

"At the conclusion of the three-hour [Pell funeral] mass, 275 priests and 75 seminarians led the processional out on to the contested ground of College Street."

Thise 275 priests and 75 seminarians were all men, almost all of them white men. For whose interests did Pell stand, one has to ask? as one weighs the symbolism here.

#CardinalPell #Catholic #SexualAbuse

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/02/cardinal-george-pell-funeral-sydney-australia

"Akin to the worst, two-bit fairground magic act in history, these op-eds simply focused on the High Court setting aside Pell’s personal conviction for child abuse, and completely ignored his decades-long enabling of paedophile priests through a career-long inaction, as documented and summarised in the final royal commission report."

#CardinalPell #Catholic #SexualAbuse

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Simon Hunt writes,

"Like many, I was disgusted by the history-erasing hagiographies that followed the death of Cardinal George Pell – declaring his actions to be saint-like; comparing him to a crucified Christ who had died at the hands of 'political correctness'; claiming that he had gone to jail for having had the temerity to 'talk back to the culture'."

#CardinalPell #Catholic #SexualAbuse

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https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/every-sex-abuse-survivor-ribbon-tells-a-story-the-church-tried-to-silence-20230201-p5ch2p.html

And, as protesters decry Cardinal Pell's hateful approach to LGBTQ human beings and his complicity in protecting priests sexually abusing children, which the Australian Royal Commission report, exposed, former Australian PM Tony Abbot calls Pell "a saint."

#CardinalPell #homophobia #misogyny #abortion #Catholic #sexism #SexualAbuse

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/02/australia/cardinal-george-pell-funeral-intl/index.html

As AJ McDougall and
Barbie Latza Nadeau report,

"One protest organizer told The Guardian that it was 'pretty grotesque that someone who’s an arch defender of homophobia, sexism, who said abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests abusing children, gets to have a celebration of his life.'”

#CardinalPell #homophobia #misogyny #abortion #Catholic #sexism

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/protest-grows-heated-outside-cardinal-george-pells-sydney-funeral

As Cardinal Pell's funeral is held today, police have refused to permit LGBTQ-rights protesters outside the Catholic cathedral in Sydney, and have sought a court injunction against them.

Pell famously refused to meet with his lesbian cousin, a former nun, to discuss Catholic teaching that LGBTQ human beings are "intrinsically disordered." God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," he said as he refused communion to a gay activist.

#CardinalPell #homophobia

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https://www.ncronline.org/news/police-ask-court-ban-protest-cardinals-sydney-funeral

Chrissy Foster writes,

"Perhaps before people speak of Cardinal Pell’s greatness and saintliness, they should also read the unredacted sections of the final reports on child abuse from the royal commission case study nos. 28 (Ballarat Diocese) and 35 (Melbourne Archdiocese) which were withheld from publication to allow Cardinal Pell a fair trial."

#CardinalPell #SexualAbuse

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/16/sexual-abuse-victims-know-the-truth-george-pell-allowed-lives-to-be-destroyed-to-protect-himself-and-the-catholic-church

Telling the truth about Benedict's legacy re: clerical sexual abuse of minors, and commentary on Cardinal Pell's legacy re: abuse ….

#PopeBenedict #CardinalPell #SexualAbuse

http://bilgrimage.blogspot.com/2023/01/telling-truth-about-benedicts-legacy-re.html

1. #CardinalPell #RichardCarlton BL Pell steeples hands. Two conversing, the one feels powerful uses this. The higher the more he feels powerful. 'I am being polite but will give you nil.' Carlton "Do you know the family 2 daughters abused?" The qu breaks steeple. Less powerful.

What Mickens doesn't mention here, but deserves attention, is that the anti-Francis attacks are largely funded by wealthy Catholic right-wingers in the US and Europe, who are allied with Steve Bannon. They are determined to take Francis down because he has rehabilitated Catholic social teaching.

As James Carroll says in his last book, this is tragic not just for the Catholic church but the whole world, due to the moral influence the church wields.

#CardinalPell #PopeFrancis

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Robert Mickens discusses the vicious anonymous attack that recently deceased Cardinal Pell mounted against Pope Francis last year, and the entrenched determination to uphold the all-male, ostensibly celibate clerical system at all cost that lies behind resistance to Francis.

This determination remains strong in the Vatican Curia, and may lead the election of a super-reactionary pope following Francis.

#CardinalPell #PopeFrancis

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https://international.la-croix.com/news/letter-from-rome/pope-francis-fiercest-opposition-the-churchs-clerical-workforce/17171

RT @hughriminton@twitter.com

By my count, 7 articles over 5 pages in today’s @australian@twitter.com lauding the late #CardinalPell. Like Pell himself, not much evidence of reflection or of room for other views. I feel like I’m back in church as a schoolboy with grim men laying down the truth.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/hughriminton/status/1614130519448641536

https://johnmenadue.com/cardinal-george-pell/
Excellent analysis of #CardinalPell by Paul Collins

RT @hughriminton@twitter.com

By my count, 7 articles over 5 pages in today’s @australian@twitter.com lauding the late #CardinalPell. Like Pell himself, not much evidence of reflection or of room for other views. I feel like I’m back in church as a schoolboy with grim men laying down the truth.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/hughriminton/status/1614130519448641536

Tiffanie Turnbull reports,

"Australian Cardinal George Pell - who was convicted then acquitted of child sex abuse - will not be offered a state funeral in his home state to avoid distress for victims of abuse, Victoria's premier says. ...

A landmark inquiry found that he knew of child sexual abuse by priests in Australia as early as the 1970s but failed to take action, something he says is 'not supported by evidence.'"

#CardinalPell #SexualAbuse

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64245420

Cardinal Pell, whose convictions were overturned, dies at 81

#CardinalPell #Overturned #Innocent

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Playing Tim Minchin’s song to remind me what a coward the bully was when faced with questions from the Royal Commission into Child Abuse #CardinalPell