The Prince (Updated Edition): Faith, Abuse and George Pell by David Marr
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Overview: David Marr’s explosive bestseller, now expanded and fully updated.
Cardinal George Pell is behind bars. In August 2019, his appeal failed. Australia’s most senior Catholic, the man once in charge of the Vatican’s finances, remains in prison for sexually assaulting children.
In The Prince, David Marr investigates Pell’s career and his ultimate fall. Marr reveals a cleric at ease with power and aggressive in asserting the prerogatives of the Vatican. He charts Pell’s response – as a man, a priest, an archbishop and a prince of the church – to the scandal that has engulfed the Catholic world: the sexual abuse of children.
This is the story of a cleric torn by the contest between his church and its victims, and slow to realise that the Catholic Church cannot, in the end, escape secular scrutiny. Behind it all was Pell’s own terrible secret, which was uncovered and judged in a trial that convulsed the nation.
The Prince is a portrait of hypocrisy and ambition, set against a backdrop of terrible suffering and an ancient institution in turmoil.
‘An indictment of Pell for blind, evasive, flint-hearted reactions…Has a more devastating portrait of a ”respectable”, living, non-politician, Australian public figure ever been published?’ —Gerard Windsor, Sydney Morning Herald
‘An incisive discussion of the character and personality of Pell’ —Jack Waterford, The Canberra Times
Update: The High Court of Australia overturned Pell’s conviction in April 2020, ruling the evidence presented to the jury to convict did not meet the required test of "beyond reasonable doubt". This was the first time the High Court had over-ruled a jury’s guilty verdict, and is a worrying precedent.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General, Institutional Child Abuse
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