The Vatican's Cardinal George Pell Freed From Jail & His Child Sex Abuse Convictions Overturned

Cardinal George Pell, who became the highest ranking Vatican official to ever be convicted of child sexual abuse, has now been freed from jail after Australia's highest court overturned his conviction.

The 78 year old senior Catholic figure was facing a six-year jail sentence after a jury found he was guilty of sexually abusing two boys in Melbourne in the 1990s. Seven judges ruled unanimously in Pell's favour, stating that the jury who found him guilty had "not properly considered all the evidence presented at the trial." 

Throughout the entire time, Pell maintained his innocence from the moment he was charged in June of 2017, and despite what's happened since, regardless of whether he's actually innocent or not, his case has brought even more attention to the on-going problem of pedophilia within the Vatican and Catholic church.

Although the conviction against Pell has been dropped, people will forever ponder if this man is actually guilty of what he was accused of, and perhaps much more. Unfortunately, sexual abuse within the Catholic Church and other places of power has been an issue for quite some time. It begs the question, how is this type of activity able to persist and sustain itself with nothing stopping it?

It can be disturbing to contemplate the idea that Cardinal George Pell is or would be involved in such things as he himself established The Diocesan Commission Into Sexual Abuse in 1996.

It's no secret that sexual abuse scandals have plagued the Catholic Church for decades, and it seems almost every single year. For example, prior to the accusations against Pell, in 2015 a lawyer by the name of Ulrich Weber uncovered that for the thirty year reign of boys choir run by Benedict's XVI’s elder brother, approximately 600 boys with a “high degree of plausibility” were victims of sexual and physical abuse, or both. The report identified 500 cases of physical abuse, and 67 cases of sexual abuse committed by a total of 49 people in a position of power within the church.

Furthermore, it was only a few months ago when Carlo Maria Vigano, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States and Secretary-General of the Governor of Vatican City, implicated multiple church officials, including Pope Francis, in sexual abuse.

Reverend Gabriele Amorth is another example. He was an Italian Roman Catholic Priest and an exorcist of the Diocese of Rome, which is an administrative branch of the Catholic Church of Rome. He claimed to have performed tens of thousands of exorcisms over his half a dozen plus decades as a Catholic Priest, and has mentioned a number of times how Satanism is practiced within the Vatican. He has also claimed that girls are commonly kidnapped by a gang of Vatican police and foreign diplomats. He claimed that these girls are recruited for Vatican parties, and crimes with a sexual motive.

Malachi Martin, an Irish Catholic priest and writer on the Catholic Church published many books exposing the practice of Satanism within the Vatican. He was originally ordained as a Jesuit priest and eventually became Professor of Palaeography at the Vatican’s Pontifical Biblical Institute.

Martin wrote the following in his book, "The Keys of This Blood."

“Most frighteningly for [Pope] John Paul [II], he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops’ chanceries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the ‘superforce.’ Rumors, always difficult to verify, tied its installation to the beginning of Pope Paul VI’s reign in 1963. Indeed Paul had alluded somberly to ‘the smoke of Satan which has entered the Sanctuary’. . . an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican. Besides, the incidence of Satanic pedophilia – rites and practices – was already documented among certain bishops and priests as widely dispersed as Turin, in Italy, and South Carolina, in the United States. The cultic acts of Satanic pedophilia are considered by professionals to be the culmination of the Fallen Archangel’s rites.”