Mourners paid their respects to former Vatican Cardinal George Pell in a Sydney cathedral as police asked a court to stop a planned protest at the funeral of a polarizing church leader who was once the most senior Roman Catholic convicted of sex abuse.
Deputy Commissioner David Hudson said police couldn’t reach a compromise with organizers’ protest plans.
“We need everybody to come out and protest on Thursday. We can’t let the police get away with denying us our right to protest this bigot’s funeral!” the group said.Protesters tied ribbons in memory of victims of clergy abuse to the cathedral’s fence early Wednesday before the doors were open to the public.
Pell was archbishop of Sydney from 2001 until 2014 when Pope Francis appointed him to be the first prefect of the newly created Secretariat for the Economy tasked with reforming the Vatican’s notoriously opaque finances.Pell had been archbishop of Melbourne from 1996 to 2001, the period during which he was alleged to have sexually abused two choirboys in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. He was convicted then acquitted after a second appeal.
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