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Cardinal George Pell has today warned Australia of treating “every accusation as gospel truth” in a sit-down television interview with the only journalist that would not ask him a hard question, Andrew Bolt.
George Pell was speaking in his first TV interview since being released from prison last week after paying barristers enough money to overturn his conviction of child rape on a technicality.
The man who has spent 61-years of his life urging people to believe in something much more unrealistic than the prospect of pedophilia in the Catholic Church said “guilt by accusation” was not a sign of a fair civilisation, and described Victoria Police’s decision to pursue charges against him as “extraordinary”
He also hit out at the ABC, which he said was “partly financed by Catholic taxes” – which doesn’t make sense really, considering the Church pays no tax.
In an excerpt of the interview, Cardinal Pell said there was a risk society would move to a position where people were found guilty by accusation, which isn’t fair to people like him, who now face hurdles in spreading the story of a magical caucasian carpenter who lived in Palestine 2000 years ago.
“It’s not a sign of a civilisation where you have guilt by accusation, these things have to be tested respectfully,” Cardinal Pell said, seemingly forgetting the four year Royal Commission into the culture of child molesting in his chosen religious institution, that he fronted many times, and resulted in the incarceration of a lot of clergymen that he worked side by side with”
It is not widely known where this entire interview will be broadcast, but NewsCorp remain confident that the easily outraged old people that they want to see it, will see it, via one of the many conservative cheerleading networks that they drip feed into the brains of Quiet Australians.
According to Victoria Police…
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