Commentary
Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s most senior Catholic leader, died in Vatican City on Jan. 10, aged 81. He will be buried in St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney, where he served as archbishop for 13 years.
Pell was born in Ballarat, Victoria, in 1941, the second and youngest child to an Anglican father and a devout Irish Catholic mother. He was first appointed Archbishop of Melbourne in 1987, and then Archbishop of Sydney in 2001. Finally, in 2003, Pell was appointed to the College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II.
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott says that Australia has lost “a committed defender of Catholic orthodoxy and a staunch advocate for the virtues of Western Civilisation.”…