For George Pell, ‘be not afraid’ was more than a motto. It became a test. He passed. Gloriously.
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Marvellous book which I have.
REQUIEM aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.
I must say this comes as a shock. Pope Benedict’s passing was a joyous event, the proper and natural conclusion of a life well-lived. But this seems untimely.
Indeed, cuckoo. He personally would have been prepared, though. Major surgery at 81 is dangerous enough but he had recently had serious heart problems as well.
Tony Abbott: “A saint for our times.”
Albanese responds appropriately:
I wouldn’t go looking for Lousie Milligan’s comments on Twatter.
Indeed. I can’t be sad for him, only happy that he is now in peace and untouchable by the hurt inflicted upon him by false allegations and vilifications. I’m sure, that as in life, he will now be praying for those who hurt him as well as the victims and perpetrators of all child abuse.
I experienced the graciousness of this man in many ways. He was most prompt and thoughtful in his handwritten correspondence with me on several matters over many years. That may seem trivial, but bishops in my experience are not the best correspondents especially on controversial issues. (Archbishop Anthony Fisher is another notable exception.) Then as a Bishop he readily agreed to celebrated the first Old Rite Mass in St Patrick’s Cathedral in a quarter of a century. That involved, on his part, a lot of rehearsal, the Old Rite rubrics being far more intricate than the New. He did the job splendidly. Afterwards, as choir director at that event, I and some close friends as a gesture of thanks invited him to dinner at a restaurant in the city. He readily acceded. Not only did we have a very pleasant evening of conversation, but at the end he insisted on paying the bill. Typical.
May flights of angels lead you on your way, to paradise and heaven’s eternal day. May martyrs lead you after death’s dark night, and bid you enter into Zion’s light. May choirs of angels sing you to your rest, with once-poor Lazarus, now for ever blest.
The death of his beloved sister Margaret in 2021 – imagine what she went through – was reportedly a huge blow.
Wonderful memories, Hugh. Thank you.
A righteous man
A saintly man
A tzadik
When I think of what he endured over the last decade, I get very upset. But he’s now in a better place, with God and the angels, of that I have no doubt.
Beautiful reflection, Hugh. Cardinal Pell did the same at St Patrick’s Cathedral, where the traditional Mass is still held on Wednesdays at 5.00pm
Frank Devine wrote: ‘George is big enough to take care of himself…’; and then went ahead with a stirring defence of him in The Australian. The attacks had started many, many years ago.
May perpetual light shine upon him
Sad news; may he rest in peace.
Very sad news indeed.
And yet in God’s good time.
May George Pell find a blessed homecoming and see face to face, as promised, the Lord God who has loved him all the while, especially when persecuted.
I suspect he passed away in the city which he loved and that’s a good thing. However, his passing should remind us all of the disgusting behaviour of those evil doers who wanted him to suffer. That’s a decent part of the Victorian legal profession aided by the Australian leftwing. Just despicable pricks. They made his last decade a living hell.
One person saved him- an Orthodox Jew. Weinberg was a real mensch.
We should never forget what those scumbags did to him and although it can’t be proven they most likely shortened his honourable life.
⬆️ 💯
Alas, the best chance for a Royal Commission to investigate the many crimes committed by those responsible was the Liberals winning the last Victorian election.
He never buckled to the tyrants.
He showed how it should be done.
“I suspect he passed away in the city which he loved and that’s a good thing. However, his passing should remind us all of the disgusting behaviour of those evil doers who wanted him to suffer. That’s a decent part of the Victorian legal profession aided by the Australian leftwing. Just despicable pricks. They made his last decade a living hell.
One person saved him- an Orthodox Jew. Weinberg was a real mensch.
We should never forget what those scumbags did to him and although it can’t be proven they most likely shortened his honourable life.”
Perfectly said JC. I remember the picture of the Appeal in August 2019. You could see from Weinberg’s face that not only had a grave injustice been done to Pell but that he sitting on a bench with two legal fools. You could see his pain!
It was because of Weinberg’s legal dissertation that the HC heard the case. It was an impressive piece.
It was one of the great moments of intellectual power routing lies in the country’s history. We are all in Weinberg’s debt.
Tess Livingstone has an excellent tribute in the Australian to the Cardinal.
Cassie, I do too. The other judges were on W’s right and he was mostly looking to his left with a hideously contorted expression. When I read his devastating dissenting decision, I realized it was all back there in his face … which became to me a thing of beauty, something like Christ’s might have been when He was whipping the moneychangers or denouncing pharisees. God bless him. Hero.
I have yet to see a media outlet say he was wrongly convicted. Sad news, Abbott is right.
The ABC is being predictably and contemptibly snarky, as is that two-faced leader of the bureaucratic, philistine and secularist ‘Catholic’ fifth column Francis Sullivan. But Gillard’s political patsy Tony Windsor (enthusiastically quoted by the ABC) takes the cake.
As for the Cardinal himself: well done, good and faithful servant. Requiescat in pace.
A couple of members of my family had the opportunity to spend some time with Cardinal Pell, nothing but good words.
A saint, a great loss.
I’m very glad he spent his final years in a sanctuary from the abuse and calumny he was forced to endure in Australia.
Old Lefty (4.06pm) Windsor made multiple millions out of siding with Gillard.
Patsy is not the right word.
Lovely recollections. I’m a little shocked because he appeared quite well only last week on a panel remembering Benedict XVI. Only goes to show there is no such thing as minor surgery when you’re 80 plus.
R.I.P.
Weinberg’s dissent was a tour de force. And a bright light in those dark days. He made the other two, incl. the CJ, look like lickspittles and amatuers.
Vale George. He turned the other cheek like a good Christian, but that means they get away with it and keep doing it. Sometime I think we need a bit of the old gods, like Thor and the hammer of vengeance.
Was privileged to attend a Requiem Mass for Those Who Died this day, with the Propers for a Bishop, specifically offered for Cardinal Pell. God bless our parish priest.
I was shocked by the news of Cardinal Pell’s passing today. My mum had a hip replacement at 81 and dad aged 89 had cardiac arrest after a procedure, was given CPR and survived.
The media reporting is disgraceful. ABC got Milligan on the TV today. And all the references to the RC – yet if one waded through the exhibits – the transcripts and statements – the “findings” were not supported by the “evidence”. And Royal Commissioners put a disclaimer next to each victims’ narrative on the RC website.
It always seemed political with senior ALP politicians patrons of CLAN – the organisation who held up vile artworks outside the Courts (artist sells smaller works for $4,000 so how did those posters get funded?). And the co-founder of that organisation (whose brother was a volunteer for Marles – according to M Davey story in The Guardian some years ago) entertained by Gillard at Kirribilli House back in 2013 and then photographed socialising with the commissioners after the RC in 2018. The chair of the RC even invited members to his retirement function in 2018. Shine Lawyer Lisa Flynn (in NSW) issued a statement today that the civil case will proceed. Presumably lodged in Vic. Any political links in the civil case?
It is a very sad day.
Thank you CL for your blog and best wishes for 2023.
As sings Angel near the end of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius:-
Comments on this site on the passing of Cardinal Pell are uplifting reminders that we find abundant goodness around us if we look for it.
As to “…a bit of the old gods like Thor and the hammer of vengeance” (Jannie at 6:13 pm), the temptation to invoke them is very human, but as Jews know from their Torah and Christians from their Bible, “Vengeance is Mine, and retribution; in due time their foot will slip” says the Lord. We need to keep this faith so ably demonstrated by Cardinal Pell during his earthly life.
Thank you C.L. and best wishes for 2023. Your blog is as an oasis to a thirsty traveller.
– 2 Tim 4:7-8
A good man, falsely and vilely accused, who kept the faith no matter what was thrown at him. In some ways, he was a modern day Job. Rest in Peace good and faithful servant.
Wyndham: Thank you C.L. and best wishes for 2023. Your blog is as an oasis to a thirsty traveller.
Amen to that, C.L. and Dover. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (“and sisters,” interjects Stan, rightly so this time) need to press on in prayer and friendship into the darkling plain of 2023.
Oh, speaking of good correspondents, Pope Benedict was, too.
There’s a marvelous lady I know in a remote Victorian town who used to email Cardinal Ratzinger as head of the S.C.D.F. about her beefs with the rubbish going on in the Church, and he duly and sympathetically replied to her … even after he became pope.
Old world values.
So glad that Weinberg could not only see the obvious, but his brilliance enabled him to articulate it and, most importantly, he had the independence and strength of character to stand up to mass hysteria. Kudos to that man.
Thankfully there are still a few great men and women still in the judicial system. Not sure how long that will last. Having said that, the High Court came through. What was astonishing was to discover how many powerful people were incredibly stupid. That silly woman from the ABC was the most stupid of all. The whole case made Victoria look provincial because it is.
His prison journals are worth reading, although you probably have to be a Catholic to get the most out of them. He says in one of them – probably volume one – at one point that you know a book is good when you’re reading it past midnight. I looked at my watch and it was.
Cardinal Pell’s last missive written for the Spectator just before he died: an attack on the ‘toxic nightmare’ that is the the ‘neo-Marxist’ Synod on Synodality, which he said sidelined Christ and was rigged by organisers.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-catholic-church-must-free-itself-from-this-toxic-nightmare/