George Pell guilty: Senior catholic clergyman convicted of child sex offences
A Vatican treasurer has been found guilty of child sex offences - the most senior catholic clergyman to be convicted to date.
Pell spent most of his first three decades as a priest in Ballarat, an old gold mining town in the state of Victoria. It was not until 2016 that the complaints against Pell were first made public, with charges laid in 2017, and in theThere was a reporting restriction on the case until nowBy the time Pell became Archbishop of Sydney, the country's top-ranking Catholic position, in 2001 he was a polarising national figure - revered by many conservative Catholics but criticised by liberals for his outspoken views.
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