George Pell denied public memorial in home Australian state

By Agence France-Presse

Jan 12, 2023 12:52 pm

SYDNEY: An Australian state leader on Thursday emphatically ruled out a taxpayer-funded memorial for Cardinal George Pell, saying it would be 'deeply distressing' for sexual abuse survivors.

Pell, who died in Rome aged 81, was a towering figure in the Catholic Church but deeply divisive at home in Australia, where he had been accused of molesting two teenage choir boys while archbishop of Melbourne.

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