Cardinal George Pell left Sydney two years ago to great fanfare. The longtime archbishop of Sydney and lauded “defender of the faith down under” had just been appointed chief of
the Vatican’s finances — sometimes described as the second most
powerful position in Rome. It is the highest an Australian has ever
ascended in the church.
But Pell couldn’t leave behind the child
sex abuse scandal that had rocked his hometown or the hushed accusations
that he had a part in it. Those accusations have grown louder and much
more public since last month, when an Australian commission began hearings into a notorious pedophilia ring just down the road from where Pell once served as parish priest.http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/03/top-vatican-cardinal-trailed-by-old-child-abuse-scandal-from-australia/