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Pell’s secret memo casts shadow at cardinal’s funeral

Pell’s secret memo casts shadow at cardinal’s funeral

PHILIP PULLELLA POPE Francis gave a funeral blessing to Cardinal George Pell as revelations that he wrote an anonymous memo branding the current papacy a "catastrophe" hung in the air along with the incense. About 300 people attended Pell's funeral Mass in a secondary chapel of St. Peter's Basilica. In keeping with tradition for deceased cardinals, the Mass was said by the dean of the College of Cardinals, Italian Giovanni Battista Re. Francis arrived at the end to give the final blessing in Latin over the dark brown wooden coffin on the floor. The coffin was incensed and sprinkled with…
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Cardinal Pell lies in state, funeral plans overshadowed by memo revelation

Cardinal Pell lies in state, funeral plans overshadowed by memo revelation

PHILIP PULLELLA AUSTRALIAN Cardinal George Pell was lying in state, with funeral preparations overshadowed by revelations that he was the author of an anonymous memo that branded Pope Francis' pontificate a catastrophe. Pell's closed dark brown wooden coffin was placed on the floor of the small church of St. Stephen of the Abyssinians, inside the Vatican walls just metres (yards) away from the Santa Marta residence where Francis lives. Early on Friday, a reporter saw about 20 people kneeling in prayer in the church when it opened for 10 hours of lying in state. Pell, 81, who spent more than…
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