Mourners and protesters faced off in Sydney at the funeral service for Australian Cardinal George Pell, a former top Vatican official who was acquitted in 2020 of sexual abuse accusations
In a park opposite the cathedral, groups of protesters, many from the LGBT community and some holding signs reading "Pell Burn In Hell", heard speeches against the cardinal and the Catholic Church.
" just show solidarity with the victims and the survivors of what's happened through the Catholic Church, but particularly George Pell," Layne Elbourne, a musician, told Reuters. Small numbers of mourners held up rosary beads in response to protesters' chants, though there were no signs of physical clashes between the two groups.
Tensions had flared on Wednesday after some inside the church property were seen removing colourful ribbons tied by protesters along the fence of the cathedral, television footage showed.Australia's High Court in 2020 quashed the convictions of Pell, a leading Catholic conservative, for sexually assaulting two choir boys in the 1990s, allowing him to walk free after 13 months in prison. Pell lived in Rome after the acquittal and had several meetings with Pope Francis.
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