A Melbourne school has praised Vatican leader Cardinal George Pell, who recently died from heart complications in Rome, for his administrative strength.
Pell, formerly the archbishop of Melbourne and Sydney and Australia’s most senior Catholic, passed away on Jan. 10 following hip replacement surgery aged 81.
He gained notoriety in Australia after standing trial and being found guilty in 2017-18 for the alleged sexual abuse of two teenage choirboys in 1996. The country’s peak judicial body later quashed this verdict.
Principal Deb Frizza of the private boys’ school, St Bede’s College, in Mentone, wrote in a school newsletter that “Pell’s strengths in administration were widely recognised, both in Australia and around the world.”…