In 1996, Broken Rites informed the Australian public that the Catholic Church had been harbouring Father Nazareno Fasciale (pronounced
"Fah-SHAH-lay") while he was committing crimes against children. Police
charged Fasciale but he suddenly died. Then church leaders, including
George Pell, gave this pedophile a grand funeral. One church leader said
that the church is "immensely proud" of Fasciale. When Broken Rites exposed
this (and other) church cover-ups, George Pell's diocese (Melbourne)
rushed into damage control, hiring a public relations firm to announce
the "Melbourne Response", instead of waiting for the church's
Australia-wide "Towards Healing" strategy which was due to start a few
months later.
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