Protesters clashed with Catholic faithful before the funeral of Cardinal George Pell at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney, where thousands gathered to farewell the divisive figure.
Protesters clashed with Catholic faithful before the funeral of Cardinal George Pell at St Mary’s Cathedral in central Sydney, where thousands gathered to farewell the divisive figure on Thursday.
The first conflict came just before 10am, when protesters placed signs bearing slogans, including “Pell burn in hell” and “Infernal lasting peace”, at Hyde Park, which is opposite the cathedral on College Street.Their actions prompted several Catholic mourners to yell “Take it down!” Police ordered the protesters to remove the signs before they confiscated one of them.
Former prime ministers Tony Abbott and John Howard and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton joined mourners at the cathedral. However, neither NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet nor NSW Labor leader Chris Minns attended.NSW Police withdrew a court challenge “We certainly ask that anyone attending today treat each other with respect. There’ll be mourners and protesters of different types,” Webb told 2GB radio’s Ben Fordham.“There’s certainly a right to freedom of speech, and we respect that, but they need to respect the law.
Before the protest, Stern said it would be “loud, vibrant and very visible”, and would denounce Pell’s strident and long-standing opposition to marriage equality, homosexuality and abortion rights. Pell had also faced allegations of covering up child sexual abuse.
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