The Blind Hatred of the Get Pell Campaign
Cardinal Pell, the Media Pile-On & Collective Guilt
by Gerard Henderson
Connor Court, 2021, 440 pages, $39.95
Much of the anti-Pell literature was written before or adjacent to Cardinal George Pell’s trials on charges of historical sexual abuse against children. These books and shorter diatribes were, at least in some cases, written to influence the outcome of the trials, in order to see Pell crucified for his alleged sins and those of his Church. Following the Cardinal’s exoneration by the High Court in Holy Week 2020 and his subsequent dignified but defiant resumption of, for him, planet normal, those who were earlier out to get him have gone strangely silent on the Pell case. Silent but never apologetic—despite the utter humiliation of their case and cause by, first, Justice Mark Weinberg, and then, at last, by the magnificent seven (well, in this case, at least) of the High Court of Australia. There were grumblings from the likes of Daniel Andrews (an…
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