Cardinal Pell’s release should not be the end of this shameful episode
Cardinal Pell might have been freed by the High Court.
But this shameful episode won’t be over until those whose hatred and incompetence saw him jailed face a reckoning for their actions.
By George, it’s unbelievable
On December 6 last year, District Court Judge Roy Ellis handed down a remarkable decision. It acknowledged that the criminal justice system was tainted with anti-Catholic bias, resulting in an unjust 12 month jail sentence (reduced to 6 months of home detention) being imposed on the former Adelaide archbishop, Philip Wilson. While setting Wilson free, Judge Ellis addressed what he termed the ‘elephant in the room’: the media and the...
