A Sydney cathedral has ignored calls to remove any association it has with now disgraced former archbishop Cardinal George Pell. It hasn’t gone down well.
St Mary’s, Sydney’s primary Catholic cathedral, will keep a plaque of Cardinal George Pell within its grounds despite calls for it to be taken down.
The defiant act comes hours after the former Archbishop of Sydney was found guilty of four charges, including the rape of a boy and molestation of another.St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney where the plaque in honour of Pell is situated. Picture: AAP Image/Joel Carrett.Pell celebrates mass in Sydney's St. Mary's Cathedral. Picture: AP Photo/Rick Rycroft.
honour and another Catholic institution that has already removed the cardinal’s name from its buildings.Pell was the Archbishop of Sydney from 2001 to 2010 before he was called to the Vatican for other duties that led him to become the world’s third most powerful Catholic., a spokesman for the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney said the church had “no reason to change arrangements” and remove the plaque while Pell moved forward with his appeal.
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