Australia’s Victoria says scandal-plagued Cardinal George Pell will not be given state funeral | South China Morning Post

The Australian state of Victoria will not hold a state funeral for Cardinal George Pell, who died at the age of 81. The decision was confirmed by the state’s premier, who said that an official memorial for the late cardinal, who was convicted of sexually assaulting two choirboys in the 1990s, would be distressing. D…

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