While the sentencing of George Pell attracted much coverage over the past week, with the Cardinal’s foes decrying any questioning of the jury’s “manifestly ludicrous” decision, the final resolution of another case hanging on allegations of clerical sexual abuse of a child flew largely beneath the radar. Like the accusations that have put a conservative […]

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While not one of the world’s great newspapers, readers might still expect the Byron Shire News to nevertheless maintain some sort of standards. Editor Christian Morrow apparently sets his own, as per the clip from a recent edition reproduced above. For those with less than perfect eyesight, Editor Morrow writes: A cardinal sexually assaulting school […]

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Justice, Victoria-style, as seen from abroad: Cardinal George Pell was exactly where he should have been Wednesday night in Melbourne: in jail. Let Henry David Thoreau explain: “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison” (Civil Disobedience). Now that the peculiar “suppression order” in Australia […]

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It seems Minneapolis has something in common with Melbourne, other than both cities beginning with ‘M’: …in the city soon to be formerly known as Minneapolis, where the good people of Minnesota — of Scandinavian, German, and Irish stock —  have been busily importing people from perhaps the most culturally alien region of the world, […]

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Quadrant contribuor Michael Giffin, a priest in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, reacts to the Pell verdict: Like Tony Abbott, Cardinal Pell has always been a lightning rod, a whipping boy, a scapegoat for what the Left despises about traditional Christian values. For decades now, he has been an enduring symbol of everything Australians hate about the […]

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At Eureka Street, Father Frank Brennan examines at length the evidence that led a jury to arrive at Cardinal Pell’s conviction. A sample: … Witnesses familiar with liturgical vestments had been called who gave compelling evidence that it was impossible to produce an erect penis through a seamless alb. An alb is a long robe, […]

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Hollywood will convene on Monday morning (Australian time) to hand out Oscars, congratulate itself for being so very wonderful and, inevitably, let the world know the extent to which cocaine-snorting, self-absorbed leftoid libertines disapprove of President Donald Trump. Last year, the top award went to a movie, The Shape of Water, that told the story […]

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No prizes for guessing which of Monday’s Q&A panellists is the evening’s designated bad guy.

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CBS reporter Lara Logan was raped repeatedly while covering the Arab Spring in Cairo, the moment when the attack began captured in the photo above. The idea that Muslim men might do such a thing doesn’t sit well with the Left and its media auxiliaries, so her ordeal was flushed from news lists in short […]

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