The former Vatican treasurer left Rome in July 2017 to face charges for sexually assaulting two choirboys in the late 1990s. His conviction was overturned in April.
Cardinal George Pell is travelling to Rome this week for the first time since he was acquitted of child sex abuse charges in Australia, a Catholic church spokeswoman confirmed.
When he left Rome in 2017, Pell was head of the Vatican's Secretariat of the Economy which was working on cleaning up the church's vast finances and eliminating abuse.
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