Pell's guilty verdict was revealed in Australia on Tuesday after a court suppression order was dropped.
Cardinal George Pell arrives at County Court in Melbourne, Australia, February 27, 2019.
The Pell conviction has been particularly embarrassing for the Vatican and Pope Francis, coming just two days after the end of a major meeting of Church leaders on how to better tackle the abuse of children by clergy. He did not elaborate about the timing or the procedure. The investigation could lead to a full trial or an abbreviated “administrative process”, a Vatican source said.
Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted for child sex offences, was found guilty in December of five charges related to the abuse of the 13-year-old boys while he was Archbishop of Melbourne in the 1990s. McCarrick, who resigned as cardinal last year when the accusations first surfaced and were deemed credible by US Church investigators, was dismissed from the priesthood.
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