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Handel On The Law

(01/14) HOTL Hour 2

Handel On The Law

KFI AM 640

News

4.3879 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Handel on the Law, Marginal Legal Advice.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here is a name you might remember, Cardinal George Pell.

0:05.4

And he was convicted on child abuse charges, Australia.

0:09.9

So this happened in Australia.

0:12.3

He was convicted on child abuse charges.

0:16.7

And he went to jail, spent a couple years in jail, but the Australian Supreme Court actually quashed the conviction for various technical reasons.

0:27.2

He's the former Vatican treasurer in Australia's highest-ranking Catholic cleric, the most senior church figure ever jailed for, well, let's just

0:40.9

well, for child abuse, child molestation.

0:44.5

And he just died, he had complications after hip surgery and he ended up dying.

0:49.1

He was the Archbishop of Melbourne and Sydney before becoming one of the Pope's top

0:53.9

aides while he was molesting children.

0:57.6

He was summoned to Rome in 2014 to clean up the Vatican's finances, and he was, according to many,

1:06.6

the third ranked official. He left his post in 2017.

1:12.3

He returned to Australia to face trial on child sex abuse charges.

1:17.5

And a jury in 2018 found him guilty for abusing two kids while he was Archbishop of Melbourne in the 90s.

1:28.6

So at least the church did something about it.

1:33.1

It had, I mean, he was one of the most senior, actually the most senior cleric was ever

1:36.8

been jailed for child abuse.

1:38.4

And keep in mind that the protection that the church up to the popes had for accused child molesters.

1:48.6

And I'm talking about Pope John Paul II.

1:51.8

He's a saint.

1:52.9

He also protected child molesters.

1:55.5

Pope Benedict XVI, who just died a little while ago, protected child molesters.

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