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THREAD: 1. Reminded today of another requiem mass back in 1996: the funeral of serial paedophile priest Nazareno Fasciale, attended by the late George #Pell six weeks after Fasciale was charged by police for multiple counts of gross indecency & indecent assault of four children.
2. #Pell was soon to become Archbishop of Melbourne. 3 years before, he was on the church’s Personnel Advisory Board which, knowing Fasciale’s crimes, allowed him to retire for “ill heath & stress”. The child abuse Royal Commission found Pell knew real reason Fasciale retired.
3. When #Pell became archbishop, he made a big thing of introducing the Melbourne Response, supposedly to help victims, but really silenced them, forced them to sign deeds of release & gave them paltry compensation. He said he was the first church leader to tackle this crisis.
Greg Sheridan, as expected has written a glowing tribute to #Pell, in The Australian, of course.
It's an indulgent piece, afforded to Sheridan because he is Pell's friend and in a powerful position at The Australian. Let's drill down.
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It's an indulgent piece, afforded to Sheridan because he is Pell's friend and in a powerful position at The Australian. Let's drill down.
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Sheridan starts by regurgitating the idea that Pell is a victim of 'anti-Catholic Hysteria'.
Sheridan, like others never suggest why complainants, with zero to gain, would voluntarily subject themselves to examination by ruthless Barristers like Robert Richter.
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Sheridan, like others never suggest why complainants, with zero to gain, would voluntarily subject themselves to examination by ruthless Barristers like Robert Richter.
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Sheridan, in a deceptive attempt to sound reasonable, acknowledges the scourge of abuse in The Church, but tempers it by suggesting it was the same everywhere.
He ignores the industrial scale protection racket run by the Church and dismisses the Royal Commission findings.
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He ignores the industrial scale protection racket run by the Church and dismisses the Royal Commission findings.
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Man of God? The Pell I knew failed kids. Some are now dead, some irreparably damaged, some living a destroyed life of unfulfilled potential.
This remains true no matter how much those like Andrew Bolt defend him and want to re-write history.
A thread of #Pell defenders.
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This remains true no matter how much those like Andrew Bolt defend him and want to re-write history.
A thread of #Pell defenders.
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Tony Abbot, of course.
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The Australian, repeatedly.
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Since #Pell's death concern has been expressed that it may trigger those who suffered & survived childhood sexual abuse.
Now we are witnessing a plethora of church leaders, former politicians & commentators publically singing Pell's praises & ignoring facts & abuse survivors.
Since #Pell's death concern has been expressed that it may trigger those who suffered & survived childhood sexual abuse.
Now we are witnessing a plethora of church leaders, former politicians & commentators publically singing Pell's praises & ignoring facts & abuse survivors.
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No person is completely good or completely evil. (Although some might argue) I'm sure Pell did things worthy of praise, but with his passing should the evil he did be ignored?
Some go part of the way to balanced commentary by acknowledging he was tried for child sex abuse.
No person is completely good or completely evil. (Although some might argue) I'm sure Pell did things worthy of praise, but with his passing should the evil he did be ignored?
Some go part of the way to balanced commentary by acknowledging he was tried for child sex abuse.
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Yes, a jury did find Pell guilty. Yes, the Court of Appeal upheld the jury's verdict & yes, the High Court overturned those decisions. Whilst many didn't agree, that's our legal system & we have to accept it.
But, should Pell be held up as innocent when the High Court...
Yes, a jury did find Pell guilty. Yes, the Court of Appeal upheld the jury's verdict & yes, the High Court overturned those decisions. Whilst many didn't agree, that's our legal system & we have to accept it.
But, should Pell be held up as innocent when the High Court...
The news today from Washington signals the biggest victory in the field of #CollegeInPrison in decades. It’s a long time coming. This undoes the #94crimebill’s ban on #Pell Grants for incarcerated students. #PellRestoration #PELLYES
A thread.
A thread.
Prior to the #94CrimeBill, college was common, even normal, in state and federal prisons across the country. The #Pell ban eviscerated college nearly overnight.
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#PellRestoration
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Since then, a small but growing number of privately funded programs helped keep the field alive. @BPIBard has been proud to be one of them, but we want to shout out our friends & fellow travelers at @MtTamCollege @HudsonLink & women in Bedford Hills who got so much of this going.
THREAD: List of Royal Comm (unredacted) findings re #Pell:
1. Ballarat Bishop Mulkearns did not lie to his consultors, including Pell, re true reason for shifting paedophile Fr Ridsdale from parish to parish.
2. 'Inconceivable' Mulkearns deceived Pell et al. (Rejects Pell alibi)
1. Ballarat Bishop Mulkearns did not lie to his consultors, including Pell, re true reason for shifting paedophile Fr Ridsdale from parish to parish.
2. 'Inconceivable' Mulkearns deceived Pell et al. (Rejects Pell alibi)
3. "We are satisfied...Mulkearns told the consultors it was necessary to move Ridsdale...bc of complaints that he had sexually abused children. A contrary position is not tenable."
4. Conduct of any consultor (Pell) who knew & didn't advise against moving Ridsdale 'unacceptable'.
4. Conduct of any consultor (Pell) who knew & didn't advise against moving Ridsdale 'unacceptable'.
5.Pell's was consultor. Pell's conduct, therefore, "unacceptable".
6.“Lives of dozens of children and their families, likely to be more than 100, were devastated by [Ridsdale’s] conduct."
7.Pell, then-Episcopal Vicar for Education, knew of offending in Ballarat diocese from 1973.
6.“Lives of dozens of children and their families, likely to be more than 100, were devastated by [Ridsdale’s] conduct."
7.Pell, then-Episcopal Vicar for Education, knew of offending in Ballarat diocese from 1973.
THREAD: Pell & bunkum ABC conspiracy: 1. Dec 2015: Royal Commission prepares for #Pell to fly from Rome & give evidence. 2. December 2: @VictoriaPolice issues warrants for raids @ St Patrick’s Cathedral & St Kevin’s, re alleged offences vs teenage choirboys. Reported in @theage.
3. December 11: Pell’s lawyer tells Royal Commission he’s too ill to fly & wants to give evidence from Rome via video link. Furore. I much later discover sick note written by doctor who advises the Congregation for the Causes of Saints of medical miracles, ergo person is saint.
4. Dr Richard Sallie, gastroenterologist, writes to @smh offering to accompany Pell home & to pay for 1st class ticket. 5. Survivors desperate for answers about what #Pell knew resolve to fly to Rome. But they’re broke. 6. @GorgiCoghlan & @theprojecttv organise fundraiser.
A thread about yesterday. In 2018, I attended the final submissions in DPP vs #Pell. The last thing that Pell's defence presented to the jury was this summary of the principle of reasonable doubt:
- It did not happen: Not Guilty
- It possibly happened: Not Guilty
- It probably happened: Not Guilty
- It almost certainly happened, with a reasonable doubt: Not Guilty
- It possibly happened: Not Guilty
- It probably happened: Not Guilty
- It almost certainly happened, with a reasonable doubt: Not Guilty
The jury were made painstakingly aware of the standard of proof required for a guilty verdict. After months of careful consideration of the evidence, and three and a half days of deliberation, they deemed that that standard was met.
#Auspol #Pell THREAD: 1. 2017, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse delivered final report. Following are its findings re Ballarat Bishop Ronald Mulkearns, who moved serial paedophile priest Ridsdale from parish to parish, to abuse 100s of children.
2. George #Pell was a consultor to Bishop Mulkearns - one of inner circle of priests whom the Bishop consulted on priestly appointments and movements. No-one, including Pell, argued Mulkearns didn't know about what Ridsdale was doing. There is enormous evidence to support that.
3. What #Pell did say is that Mulkearns kept the truth from his consultors. Pell gave this evidence from Rome in 2016. He did so bc he was, his Vatican doctor (Dr Polisca, who declares medical medical miracles to say someone's a saint), wrote, too ill to fly back to Australia.
THREAD: Thinking about #StKevins business. About way they & other #Catholic schools handled #Pell. Or same-sex marriage. Or @BishopComensoli re risking jail to avoid reporting hearing of child abuse in confessional. Thinking about all parents/staff/alumni of schools...
who contact me privately to express to express deep dismay. I want to say this to those parents/staff/alumni/students: Only way for likes of these schools, @BishopComensoli & @AnthonyFisherOP to hear all the disquiet you so desperately feel is to make yourselves publicly heard.
I think of bravery of traumatised people who cast their shame (it’s not their shame, though, it’s Church’s shame) aside to speak of what was done to them. To endure unbearable legal proceedings. It would be nice if the people who speak out behind scenes would also show courage.
Here’s something I missed on my first pass of #Pell judgment: Defence tried to argue Court of Appeal should not see video of J’s evidence (that is, what jury saw). I think that’s extraordinarily telling: The defence didn’t want them to see what jury had: that he was believable.
And of course, this came from a pricey defence team whose client exercised his (legal) right not to give evidence at trial.
So yes, jury’s instructed not to read anything into him remaining schtum while his counsel tries to demolish witness who alleges was raped as a child. But in light of that decision, attempt to deprive their Honours of seeing how complainant presented to jury is Quite. Something.
🚨 New working paper on financial aid for college! 🚨
Link:
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A quick summary in this #thread...
Link:
rand.org/pubs/working_p…
A quick summary in this #thread...
This paper looks at two-year college students who have the greatest financial need, and finds that a grant of around $1,000 increased rates of degree completion over the following three years by about 1-2 percentage points, from a baseline of 19% completion.
The research design is a regression discontinuity using a cutoff in the date of filing the FAFSA. Wisconsin allocates aid first-come first-served among financially eligible applicants. More details on this and supplementary strategies, in the paper.
1/ This is a MEGATHREAD. 👇🏻
That's not a Jamaican Doom Metal band name. It's a list of LNP issues & scandals for:
💥LNP VOTERS REVIEW💥
I’d like to present evidence to show they’re voting against their interests.
Please Distribute & RT. #auspol #ausvotes19
That's not a Jamaican Doom Metal band name. It's a list of LNP issues & scandals for:
💥LNP VOTERS REVIEW💥
I’d like to present evidence to show they’re voting against their interests.
Please Distribute & RT. #auspol #ausvotes19
2/ If you hate your internet, it’s entirely LNP fault. The Labor NBN fibre to the premise model was world class. It was hobbled by Turnbull to serve Rupert Murdoch. The lost productivity / opportunity cost for Australia is likely TRILLIONS. #NBNfail innovationaus.com/2018/02/NBNs-a…
3/ If you are a woman LNP voter - Why? What the heck? LNP have a huge issue with women. Their best PM candidate was not considered for the role and that’s why Julie Bishop quit, among many others. Add your examples in comments. #auspol #ausvotes19 theguardian.com/australia-news…
'You no longer rule our world': The message from Pell accuser's sister ("swimmer's trial") to powerful Cardinal supporters
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Karen Monument: "The impact of child sexual abuse inflicted by members of the Catholic Church began reverberating in my family home almost 40 years ago and culminated in the loss of a brother to suicide just over 10 years ago"
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Karen Monument: "The decision to come forward with allegations against George Pell, almost four years ago, set my brother, myself and my family on a journey that has had equally dark times and inflicted stress that I did not, at times, think we would survive"
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George Pell is not just a pedophile. He is a Luciferian who ritually abused multiple children. He was in the audience during the Luciferian ritual #FionaBarnett attended at St Mary’s Cathedral when she was 14 years old.
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George Pell is not just a pedophile. He is a Luciferian who ritually abused multiple children. He was in the audience during the Luciferian ritual #FionaBarnett attended at St Mary’s Cathedral when she was 14 years old.
fionabarnett.org/2019/02/27/aus…
#SRA #PedoGate #PellGuilty #Pell #CardinalPell @OutoftheG8TE @peterzantey @CathyCathyFox @Robert_QSentMe @VeganMikey @FightingMonarch
Australia's Child Abuse Royal Commission were supplied with multiple witness accounts of George Pell’s Luciferian ritual crimes against children. The Royal Commission poorly cross-examined George Pell regarding his cover-up of priests raping children in Victoria.
“Dutton’s Secret Drug Cartel Connection: The William Betham Case” by ForLovenFreedom link.medium.com/mJQiBI2pbU
My Dear Australians, Thank you for your kind messages of Support.
As you may know I write this from Detention, & i have taken a serious risk to my own safety by publishing this.
I write all these facts under oath,& will be happy to give evidence to any Court or Senate Committee.
As you may know I write this from Detention, & i have taken a serious risk to my own safety by publishing this.
I write all these facts under oath,& will be happy to give evidence to any Court or Senate Committee.
& I know for a fact that now Dutton will come for me & target me real hard, a risk I'm willing to take to expose what Dutton doesn't want you to know & the Truth.
All I ask of u is call your local MP & @ShayneNeumannMP & DEMAND that they Question Dutton about this 'William' Case
All I ask of u is call your local MP & @ShayneNeumannMP & DEMAND that they Question Dutton about this 'William' Case
