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You should know Card. Pell was working on Vatican Finance reform when he was removed by going back to Australia to defend his name and did not seek sanctuary in the Vatican. Hundreds of cases were thrown out, and this was a hung jury before being remanded. I doubt he is guilty considering he refused communion to gay people.

You’ve got the wrong guy Q. Pell is (((their))) enemy.

His proposed reforms, however, which included demands for greater transparency, met with resistance. According to Vatican expert Edward Pentin, the "Old Guard" resisted reform out of fears it would reveal their corruption.

Pope Francis restricted Pell's powers without notice in a motu proprio he issued in 2016. And a financial audit by the firm PricewaterhouseCoopers was cut short by the Secretary of State after only four months.

One source who spoke with Pentin complained that the reforms were "dead, over, finished, they've been blocked."

"The corruption continues; it's just better concealed," the inside source added, saying Vatican finances had returned to being as bad as they were before Pell's reforms, and possibly worse.

Libero Milone, the Vatican's auditor general, initially put in place to implement reforms, was fired in 2017, the Vatican accusing him of "spying" on officials. Milone, however, claims it was the other way around: The Vatican was spying on him, and he was fired because he had discovered financial irregularities that threatened Vatican officials.

One week later, Pell also left the Vatican, granted permission by Pope Francis to stand trial in Australian court over charges of "historical sexual offenses."

"All along I have been completely consistent and clear in my total rejection of these allegations," Pell said at the time. "News of these charges strengthens my resolve and court proceedings now offer me an opportunity to clear my name and then return here back to Rome to work."

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/cardinal-pell-found-guilty-on-all-counts-of-sex-abuse