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Homage to Cardinal Pell on his 80th birthday
June 08, 2021
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal George Pell celebrates his 80th birthday today (June 8), and his age now prevents him from holding Vatican offices or participating in a papal conclave. But the influence of the Australian prelate remains substantial—enhanced by his endurance of a patently unjust prison sentence. Father Raymond de Souza, writing in First Things, pays tribute to the cardinal as a “white martyr.”
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