George Pell Quotes

Australia, Cardinal
June 8, 1941

George Pell AC is an Australian cardinal of the Catholic Church and convicted child sex offender. He served as the inaugural prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy between 2014 and 2019, and was a member of the Council of Cardinal Advisers between 2013 and 2018. Ordained in 1966 and created a cardinal in 2003, Pell has previously served as the eighth archbishop of Sydney , the seventh archbishop of Melbourne and an auxiliary bishop of Melbourne. He has also been an author, columnist and public speaker.

Like many survivors it has taken me years to understand the impact upon my life. At some point we realize that we trusted someone we should have feared and we fear those genuine relationships that we should trust.

George Pell
- Fear
- Trust
- Relationships
The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

George Pell

I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.

George Pell
- Divorce
- Return
- Fault
Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

George Pell
- Young
- Abortion
- Abusing
It is important to point out that the Vatican is not broke ... the Holy See is paying its way, while possessing substantial assets and investments.

George Pell
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

George Pell
- Clever
- Cause
- Foolish
Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.

George Pell
- Divorce
- Pay
- Tax
Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

George Pell
- Evil
- Suffering
- Word

It's implausible because I was an auxiliary bishop and I had no access to money or - no access to significant resources, it's implausible because, of course, the attempt to bribe someone is criminal.

George Pell
- Money
- Resources
- Access
There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.

George Pell
- Church
- Christ
- Reform