Mr. Pell's position as leader of the Catholic Church in Australia must be in doubt.
Covering up multiple child rape is a very serious criminal offence. Now that Mr. Pell has
admitted the crimes commited by the church he leads, will he be retained as leader of his organisation? This is a big test for the Catholic Church.
Pell also admitted that when the parents of two very young girls complained to him that their daughters were raped by a priest, he dismissed it as "gossip". What a disgusting person he is.
It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that many people who run the Catholic Church in Australia are common criminals. All the accusations, the child rapes, the cover ups, moving paedophiles around the country, the pay-offs in return for silence. After years of lying and denying, our "moral guardian", George Pell, has finally admitted the truth, that his church has been involved in a criminal conspiracy of cover up, deceit, pay-offs, bought silence, law-breaking and lack of respect for victims whilst harbouring and continuing to employ the perpetrators - yet he is clean as a whistle? It was Dolly.
Pigs can fly.
According to an ex-policeman on Facebook: "At the least, Pell has been involved in a conspiracy, or more likely dozens of conspiracies to 'Concealing a serious offence' per Section 316 of the NSW Crimes Act. Alternately, he is an accessory after the fact to the substantive offences of the offender (assuming it is a felony/serious offence) for actively concealing the offence, providing succor or aid to the offender and/or harboring."
Individually or collectively, this man was in on it, as was Joseph Ratzinger.
The people who run the Catholic organisation have always relied on their power over politicians and others to smooth things over - to cover up their misdemeanors. That unwarranted privilige is finally slipping away from them and they don't like it.
There are now three high-powered Australian Commissions of Inquiry into what went on, mainly (but not exclusively) in the Catholic Church and they should have commenced many years ago. Every past government, every past politician, every past cleric, every senior policeman, that knew something but failed to act on it bears part of the responsibility.
How is possible for the church to retain Pell as leader?