VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Just hours after Australia’s highest court threw away the sex abuse conviction of the Vatican’s former treasurer, Pope Francis provided his early morning Mass for all those who struggle with unfair sentences, which he compared to the persecution of Jesus.
FILE PICTURE: Pope Francis leads the Palm Sunday mass in St. Peter’s Basilica without public involvement due to the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Vatican April 5,2020 Vatican Media/ Handout by means of REUTERS
The court’s ruling quashed convictions that Cardinal George Pell sexually attacked the two choir boys in the 1990 s. It enabled the 78- year-old to walk free from jail, ending the case of the most senior figure accused in the worldwide scandal of historic sex abuse that has actually rocked the Roman Catholic Church.
” I want to hope today for all those people who suffer unjust sentences resulting from intransigence,” Francis stated, speaking prior to the start of the Mass. Francis did not discuss Pell, the cardinal who was put in charge of Vatican finances by Francis in2014
Francis compared