Mission & Justice

Letters: The Sydney Morning Herald: 17/7/08

George Pell’s admonishment to young pilgrims to struggle against their “fat, relentless egos” would perhaps have made more sense coming from someone without a public relations officer, someone who so obviously enjoys the trappings of office, including an insistence on being called “Your Eminence” (”An appeal on struggle to the lone lost sheep”, July 16). Perhaps a rereading of Matthew 7:3 might be in order (”Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”): Sunil Badami; Rozelle

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10/7/07

Cardinal George Pell should consider stepping down in the light of a sex abuse scandal, the Greens say.
The Archbishop of Sydney has been accused of misleading a man abused by a priest, and giving weight to the Father Terrence Goodall’s claim the sexual encounter was consensual. Letters aired on ABC Television earlier this week showed Cardinal Pell told Anthony Jones that his complaint against Father Terrence could not be upheld because the church was not aware of any other complaints against the priest. But another letter showed Cardinal Pell was aware of a second allegation of sexual abuse against Father Goodall. Cardinal Pell earlier this week said he got his decision wrong and had expressed himself poorly in the letter to Mr Jones.

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