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Originally posted by willial: ↑

Posted on11:47 pm, February 28, 2019bySteve Kates
From George Weigel at First Things: The Pell Affair: Australia is now on trial. He begins:
Has it occurred to anyone else debating the perverse verdict rendered against Cardinal George Pell, which convicted him of “historic sexual abuse,” that the cardinal did not have to return to his native Australia to face trial? As a member of the College of Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church and a Vatican official, Pell holds a Vatican diplomatic passport and citizenship of Vatican City State. Were he guilty, he could have stayed put in the extraterritorial safety of the Vatican enclave, untouchable by the Australian authorities. But because Cardinal Pell knows he is innocent, he was determined to go home to defend his honor—and, in a broader sense, to defend his decades of work rebuilding the Catholic Church in Australia, the living parts of which owe a great deal to his leadership and courage.

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I wonder how long that diplomatic immunity would have lasted when Australia informed the Vatican they were harbouring someone that was wanted for child sex offenses.

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