Cardinal George Pell has died in Rome aged 81.

Pell served as the Archbishop of Melbourne then Sydney between 1996 and 2014, and was made a Cardinal in 2003.

In 2018 he was found guilty of various sexual offences, before being acquitted by the high court in September 2019.

Australian Baptist Minister Tim Costello has told Bill McDonald reaction to the Cardinal's death will be mixed but he is choosing to grieve.

Cardinal George Pell has died in Rome aged 81.
Pell served as the Archbishop of Melbourne then Sydney between 1996 and 2014, and was made a Cardinal in 2003.
In 2018 he was found guilty of various sexual offences, before being acquitted by the high court in September 2019.
Australian Baptist Minister Tim Costello has told Bill McDonald reaction to the Cardinal's death will be mixed but he is choosing to grieve.

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