Cdl. Pell almost certainly is being railroaded. Why?
Why the Case against Cardinal George Pell Doesn’t Stand Up
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/why-the-case-against-cardinal-george-pell-doesnt-stand-up/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-02-26&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart
in order to sustain the charge that Pell had accosted and sexually abused two choirboys after Mass one Sunday, ten improbable things would have had to have happened and all within ten minutes:
• Archbishop Pell abandoned his decades-long practice of greeting congregants outside the cathedral after Mass.
• Pell, who was typically accompanied by a master of ceremonies or sacristan when he was vested for Mass, entered the carefully controlled space of the vesting sacristy alone.
• The master of ceremonies, charged with helping the archbishop disrobe while removing his own liturgical vestments, had disappeared.
• The sacristan, charged with the care of the locked sacristy, had also disappeared.
• The sacristan did not go back and forth between the sacristy and the cathedral sanctuary, removing missals and Mass vessels, as was his responsibility and consistent practice.
• The altar servers, like the sacristan, simply disappeared, rather than helping the sacristan clear the sanctuary by bringing liturgical vessels and books back to the sacristy.
• The priests who concelebrated the Mass with Pell were not in the sacristy disrobing after the ceremony.
• At least 40 people did not notice that two choirboys left the post-Mass procession.
• Two choirboys entered the sacristy, started gulping altar wine, and were accosted and abused by Archbishop Pell — while the sacristy door was open and the archbishop was in full liturgical vestments.
• The abused choirboys then entered the choir room, through two locked doors, without anyone noticing, and participated in a post-Mass rehearsal; no one asked why they had been missing for ten minutes.